Legal

By Emmanuel Nduka Obisue Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has signed a decree-law creating a specialized criminal court to handle economic and financial offences, including corruption, fraud, embezzlement, and currency counterfeiting. The...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A bill before Senegal's parliament seeking to double the maximum prison term for same-sex acts to 10 years and criminalise any efforts to promote homosexuality was on Wednesday passed into law, fulfilling a...

By Emmanuel Nduka Obisue  The Vatican has sacked a California-based Catholic bishop, Emanuel Hana Shaleta, after accepting his resignation amid allegations that he misappropriated more than $250,000 from church funds and secretly visited a brothel in...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Immigrant rights advocates and groups on Monday instituted a legal action seeking to stop U.S. President Donald ​Trump from a planned effort to end legal protections that allow nearly 1,100 Somalis to live...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Federal High Court in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a case brought before it by anti-narcotic body against a suspended police officer, which borders on non-disclosure of assets. The National Drug Law...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna The United States has imposed sanctions ‌on the Rwandan army and four of its senior commanders, alleging that they are complicit in the conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Despite...