Prisoner dies after alleged beating, torture for ‘not queuing properly’

By Muia Joseph,

An inmate serving a life sentence at the Naivasha Maximum Prison on Thursday last week succumbed to his injuries after allegedly being beaten and tort...

IMLU , KNCHR , Naivasha Maximum Prison , NPS , prisoner

Botswana scraps anti-gay sex laws

By CNN,

Botswana's High Court has overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations in a landmark victory for Africa's LGBTQ movements...

Botswana , decriminalizing gay sex

Two Sudan rebel leaders arrested after meeting Ethiopia PM: sources

By Reuters,

Two Sudanese rebel leaders were arrested early on Saturday shortly after meeting visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who is trying to mediat...

Ethiopian PM , rebel leaders , SPLM-N , Sudan

Alabama set to execute 46-year-old man convicted of killing minister in 1991

By Reuters,

A 46-year-old man convicted of killing a minister and wounding his wife with a sword and dagger while robbing their home three days before Christmas i...

Alabama , Christopher Price , death row , murder

Sudan rebel leader returns home despite death sentence

By VOA,

A Sudanese rebel leader has returned home despite a 2014 death sentence given in abstentia, saying he will stay even though Sudan's military junta has...

Sudan , Yasir Arman

Exclusive: Islamic State suspects sent by U.S. from Syria to Iraq

By Reuters,

U.S. forces have quietly sent at least 30 suspected foreign Islamic State fighters captured in Syria last year and in late 2017 to stand trial in Iraq...

Iraq to Syria , Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service , ISIS fighters

Kirinyaga: 2 sentenced to death for robbery with violence, kidnapping

By Johnson Muriithi,

Two men have been sentenced to death in Kirinyaga for robbery with violence, demanding money with menace, abduction, and handling a stolen phone. P...

abduction , death sentence , robbery with violence

‘I can’t breathe’: New York police officer faces disciplinary trial in Garner death

By Reuters,

The disciplinary trial of the New York City police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a fatal chokehold began on Monday, nearly fiv...

Black lives matter , Eric Garner , New York City

Three Thais accused of insulting king have disappeared: rights groups

By Reuters,

Three Thai activists facing charges of insulting the monarchy have disappeared after reportedly being arrested in Vietnam, rights groups said on Frida...

Iraq court sentences four to death for joining IS

By Reuters,

An Iraqi court has sentenced four people to death by hanging for belonging to the Islamic State militant group and committing terrorist crimes in Iraq...

Iraq

Khashoggi’s son denies settlement reached over father’s murder

By CNN,

Salah Khashoggi, the son of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has denied reports that a settlement has been reached between his family and the S...

Jamal Khashoggi , Motasem Khashoggi , Salah Khashoggi , Saudi

Family worried Ethiopian woman detained in China faces death penalty

By VOA,

Friends and family are fearing for the life of a 28-year-old Ethiopian woman who has spent more than three months in a Chinese prison on drug charges....

china

Surgeons perform first HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant

By VOA,

For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicin...

HIV , Kidney transplant

Surgeons perform first HIV-to-HIV Kidney transplant

By VOA,

For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicin...

Kidney transplant

‘I killed my father because he fenced my shamba’, 19yr old tells court

By Bernadine Tiemoi,

A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges implicating him with the death of his father over land dispute two years ago. Peter Ki...

murder son father , shamba dispute

‘We forgive and miss you,’ family tells son serving life for killing father

By Citizen Reporter,

By CONSOLATA SIGAR A fight over family land in Kitui 18 years ago, left a family devastated having lost their patriarch and a son serving life in p...

Kamiti Maximum Prison , Lulu Hassan , Ndindi Mboya

Rwandan court convicts 15 on terror-related charges

By Reuters,

A Rwandan high court on Friday sentenced 13 people to five years and two others to ten years in jail after convicting them of belonging to extremist g...

Al Shabaab , Rwanda

Slain city lawyer Robert Chesang laid to rest

By Evans Chuma,

The slain city lawyer Robert Chesang was laid to rest on Saturday at Kalabata village in Baringo North. Also Read: Nyeri Magistrate pleads not to b...

Chesang

Woman in Narok jailed for 20yrs for killing Asian lover

By Reuben Motochi,

A Narok court  sentenced a woman to 20 years behind bars after she was found guilty of shooting dead her Asian lover. Hellen Wambui was charged wi...

Hellen wambui , Roy Ibrahim

Aide to leading Rwandan opposition politician found dead

By CNN,

A close aide to leading Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been found dead in the country, a party statement said. Anselme Mutuyimana,...

Anselme Mutuyimana , Rwandan , Victoire Ingabire