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.
The murder of the Cradock Four by the apartheid regime’s security forces was calculated and premeditated, the inquest into the deaths of the anti-apartheid activists heard on the first day of its reopening on Monday.
Surapong picked up the grenade as it exploded in his hands, instantly killing him and injuring four others on May 25.
The mum would have allegedly settled for just £200.
The main suspect wanted for the murder of Olorato Mongale has been shot and killed during a shootout with police in the early hours of Friday morning.
Documents obtained by amaBhungane suggest that former public works and infrastructure minister Sihle Zikalala and his close comrade, then-Independent Development Trust (IDT) chair advocate Kwazi Mshengu, mounted parallel efforts to shield the parastatal’s chief executive from investigations into a R45-million lease scandal.
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Morocco and Egypt have called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for unrestricted distribution of humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinians.
Namibia has officially commemorated its first Genocide Remembrance Day,honoring more than 70,000 Ovaherero and Nama people killed by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908.
Her husband,Dr Hamdi Al-Najjar,was critically injured and brought to the Nasser Medical Complex,and so was her last surviving son,aged just 11.,
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