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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,…

A Somali court on Monday sentenced a freelance journalist to two months in prison on charges of threatening national security, according to a press association, a case criticized by human rights activists and media groups. The conviction…

The Egyptian Bar Association has hannounced an "indefinite" strike to protest the imprisonment of six colleagues for a brawl with clerks earlier this month. "We immediately suspend all our activities, we will stop appearing in court and…

A court in the Comoros on Monday handed down a life sentence for high treason to ex-president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi. The 64-year-old was convicted of selling passports to stateless people living in the Gulf. Sambi headed the Indian…

A court in India has sentenced senior Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to life imprisonment after convicting him of funding terrorism. He was found guilty of participating in and funding terrorist acts and involvement in a criminal…