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Two men close to Benin's president were sentenced to 20 years in prison following their arrest last year on suspicion of plotting a coup in the West African country. Olivier Boko, a businessman and long-time friend of President Patrice…

Three Chinese citizens were sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in fines for illegally exploiting mineral resources in Congo, according to court filings. The ruling marks the first time foreign mineral brokers have…

A court in Burkina Faso has sentenced two people to life in prison over a deadly 2017 attack on a Turkish restaurant in the capital that killed 19 people, officials said. Two gunmen opened fire at the Aziz Istanbul restaurant on…

The housemate of an LGBTQ+ activist in Kenya was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was discovered in a metal box almost two years ago. The High Court sitting in Eldoret found Jacktone…

One of the candidates challenging Tunisian President Kais Saied in the country's presidential election next month has been sentenced to prison on fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated. Two weeks after his…

Prominent Zimbabwean opposition figure Job Sikhala has been convicted of inciting public violence in Harare. Sikhala faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment. Police accused the former MP of encouraging supporters to violently react to the…

According to judicial reports, the former transport minister of Burkina Faso, Vincent Dabilgou, was found guilty of "embezzlement of public funds," "illicit enrichment," and "money laundering" and given an eleven-year prison sentence, seven…

A criminal court in Dakar has sentenced Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko, a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, to two years' imprisonment on a charge of "corrupting young people", while acquitting him of rape. The…

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa has sentenced six men to life in prison for murdering Italy's ambassador in 2021. Public prosecutors had originally sought the death penalty for the six accused…

400 rebels in Chad were handed life sentences following the death of former ruler Idriss Deby Itno, who was killed in 2021, a public prosecutor said. After a mass trial, they were sentenced for "acts of terrorism, mercenarism,…