Prison

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Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi went on hunger strike in solidarity with other anti-government figures waging a protest fast. The imprisoned Ghannouchi, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied and head of the Ennahda main…

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The Oyo State Government has granted clemency in the serving terms of no fewer than thirty-three (33) inmates from across the Nigerian Correctional Centres in the state. Out of the figure, ten (10) inmates were released from custodial…

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Senegal's supreme court has confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing a man during a wave of political violence in 2011. However, Barthelemy Dias, a fierce opponent of President Macky Sall, will…

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The High Court in Kampala, Uganda, has sentenced 25-year-old Musa Musasizi to 105 years in prison for the heinous murders of three women and a three-month-old infant. The victims were identified as his girlfriends, and the infant was…

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A South African convicted murderer who faked his death to escape from prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt, police have announced. South African officials are to extradite Thabo Bester, 35, dubbed the…

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Mauritania Police says it has arrested a man believed to be the organiser of the escape of four terrorists detainees from the central prison in the capital, Nouakchott, three weeks earlier. In a statement posted on Facebook, they said a…

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The United States is the only country in the Sahel that has not been hit by attacks since 2011, with four militants escaping from a prison in Nouakchott on Sunday evening, killing two police officers. "At 9 pm on 5 March 2023, four…

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A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says that the government has failed to address the problem of drug trafficking in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The report is based on the findings of a…

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A court in Paris sentenced Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred to six years in prison. A six-member jury and three magistrates spent seven hours deliberating before the singer was found guilty of raping a French woman at a luxury hotel on the…

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The former head of the presidential cabinet in Tunisia was sentenced in absentia to 14 months in prison in connection with audio recordings containing derogatory remarks towards President Kais Saied, according to media reports. A series…