June 20, 2013
News in 'Law' section
NIGERIA: Cremation law gets a mixed response
June 20, 2013Clergymen, atheists and followers of traditional religion have urged Lagos residents to resist a new cremation law allowing people to continue burning their dead.
NIGERIA: Charges dropped against Russian sailors
June 19, 2013The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria. But the remaining seven sailors still face prosecution. Nigerian naval officers boarded the MV Myre Seadiver in October 2012. According to reports, at the time, the ship had left the Russian port Baltyisk in June and had been based in the Gulf of Aden before relocating to the Gulf of Guinea, entering the port of Lagos for repairs.
THE GAMBIA: Top presidential aide axed
June 19, 2013One of President Yahya Jammeh’s most senior advisers and political allies is reportedly now in detention days after being removed from his post.
LIBERIA: 300 Sierra Leonean Refugees to be ‘naturalized’
June 18, 2013The Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) says all is now set to confer Liberian citizenship on some 300 Sierra Leonean refugees living in Liberia in Liberia on World Refugee Day, June 20.
The ICC declines to confirm charges against Gbagbo
June 3, 2013Pre-Trial Chamber 1 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has adjourned the hearing on the confirmation of charges against former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. The Prosecutor’s evidence, viewed as a whole, left the Chamber with no choice but to decline to confirm the charges, the Chamber said.
AU Urges ICC to Refer Kenyatta case to Kenya Justice
May 28, 2013African leaders have passed a resolution urging the International Criminal Court to end crimes against humanity cases against Kenya's top leaders at The Hague.
The Gambia: President Jammeh sacks Justice Minister
May 22, 2013The President of The Gambian, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Dr. Alhaji Yahya Jammeh has sacked Attorney General and minister of Justice Lamin AMS Jobarteh with immediate effect.
Senegal: Fight over Habre’s trial
May 22, 2013Lawyers for former Chadian President, Hissene Habre, have filed a lawsuit in a regional human rights court to prevent Senegal from "illegally" prosecuting him for crimes against humanity.
Mahamat Djibrine: Chadians hail ex-police chief's arrest
May 17, 2013Mr Djibrine is accused of torturing and killing hundreds of opposition activists in the 1980s. It is not clear whether he will be tried in Chad or in Senegal; where Mr Habre is due to go on trial after being held under house arrest there since 2005.
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