A year after Tanzania's bloody election, many remain traumatised by the violence, while government critics live in fear of abduction and arbitrary arrest, or facing treason and terrorism charges.
READ MOREA senior opposition official in Tanzania is facing the death penalty after being charged with treason. John Pambalu is a member of Chadema national council and a former leader of the party’s youth wing.
In a statement, Madagascar’s Anti-Corruption Unit (PAC) said it had received complaints targeting several former officials, including ex-president Andry Rajoelina. The proceedings have been temporarily suspended as it first has to be determined whether the court has jurisdiction to hear the cases.
'He is given less years in prison than what he spent abusing. The courts just don’t seem able to deliver proper sentences.'
Two prisoners who were accidentally released in the past three weeks are still on the run,Justice Secretary David Lammy has revealed.
David Lammy said juries will be replaced with single judges for ‘either-way’ offences likely to result in a sentence of three years or less.
'He deliberately drove across the street intending to kill someone – and that is what happened.'
The latest report from the Angiolini Inquiry included a powerful statement from the mother of Sarah Everard, Susan.
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Former apartheid cops Pieter Stander and Abram Engelbrecht have been found guilty of the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka.
Retired Ekurhuleni city manager Dr Imogen Mashazi has been accused of having “used” a junior Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) official’s alleged sexual harassment at the hands of suspended EMPD chief Isaac Mapiyeye for her “own purposes” at the Madlanga Commission.
The raids have been aimed at addresses across the UK.
Small boat migrant Fayaz Khan,who threatened to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in a TikTok post last year (Picture: Reuters/PA)
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