Category Archives: Legal Matters
Sudan Overturns Controversial Clothing, Drinking Law
KHARTOUM – Sudan’s transitional government has overturned a moral policing law that criminalized certain clothing for women and drinking alcohol.
It also has dissolved the country’s former ruling party, carrying …
France Mourns Soldiers Killed in Mali
PARIS – France said Tuesday it is determined to continue fighting terrorism, despite losing 13 of its soldiers during a counterinsurgency operation in Mali.
The deaths of the soldiers late …
Court Postpones Hearing 8th Time For Tanzanian Journalist
DAR ES SALAM A Tanzanian court on Wednesday postponed the hearing for the eighth time of a
prominent Tanzanian journalist arrested in July in a case his lawyers and rights …
Ethiopia’s Sidama Vote on Autonomy in Latest Test for Restive Regions
HAWASSA, ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s Sidama people vote on self-determination in a referendum Wednesday closely watched by other restive ethnic groups also seeking more autonomy since reforms by Prime Minister Abiy …
Ethiopia’s Sidama Vote on Autonomy in Latest Test for Restive Regions
HAWASSA, ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s Sidama people vote on self-determination in a referendum Wednesday closely watched by other restive ethnic groups also seeking more autonomy since reforms by Prime Minister Abiy …
Anger As Policeman Charged with Murder of Aboriginal Australian Teenager
SYDNEY – There have been protests around Australia after the alleged murder in police custody of an Aboriginal man by a police officer in the Northern Territory.
Kumanjayi Walker, 19, …
