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According to her, military justice made this decision the day after the funeral of the former head of military intelligence who died in late February under circumstances that have not yet been clarified. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeA few days after her husband's funeral on Sunday, December 8, in…

Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson and Gérard Djossou are still being held on Monday, November 30, in the intelligence service. Investigations continue to determine the circumstances under which the destabilization project they are accused of were prepared and their authors. During this time, condemning reactions to these arrests are multiplied.…

Reversal in the so-called looted building case in the former Katanga province. Emmanuel Stoupis, who accused Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Claude Muyambo five years ago of stealing two buildings, was arrested on Tuesday, November 24 in Kinshasa following a complaint from the bar's president Jean-Claude Muyambo. The latter accuses the Greek citizen of using forgery, complicity in torture and fraud.…

Guillaume Soro and three of his relatives "can not fear anything" from the mandates that the Ivorian Ministry of Justice is asking to hand over to the French authorities, according to Maître Affoussiata Bamba-Lamine, lawyer at the bar in Paris and coordinator of the collective of Guillaume Soro's lawyers. "In this case, it will…

The head of the crushing room at the Central Bank of Congo in Lubumbashia was arrested on Friday, November 20, for embezzling public funds. But according to NGO Justicia Asbl, a dozen other agents should be investigated for theft in 2019 of bags of used Congolese banknotes that are normally intended to be perforated and then crushed.…

Violent clashes between protesters and police took place on Wednesday, November 18, in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. The police report shows 3 dead and 34 injured. These protests erupted after another arrest by Bobi Wine. The 38-year-old singer, elected Member of Parliament in 2017, is President Yoweri Museveni's main opponent in the presidential election on January 14, 2021.…

When we postpone this case to two weeks, this obviously presupposes that, during these two weeks, President Kamto will still be assigned his home without any court order without any administrative order. This attack will therefore continue for at least two more weeks, and we cannot admit that a Cameroonian is kept at home with his family and home staff without food, without medicine, for that long. In the meantime, we, the lawyers, are thinking of other procedures that we can initiate so that this measure is effectively…

In Burundi, international and local human rights organizations condemned the arrest and imprisonment, described as arbitrary, by a former opposition representative, Fabien Banciryanino, on 2 October. He was arrested without a warrant and then jailed in the Mpimba jail in Bujumbura a week ago, officially for "riots, slanderous condemnations and attacks on the state's internal and external security". However, according to one of his lawyers and a letter sent by the interested party to CNIDH, the independent national…

For a week, police have been deployed around the residence of the leader of the MRC. His party called for a protest against the Paul Biya regime in Cameroon last Tuesday. Demonstrations that mobilized an impressive security system despite the low turnout. Dozens of police and gendarme filters around the residence of Maurice Kamto day and night. In order to enter, a request must be made to the authorities. And until now Maurice Kamto claims not to have received any official notification from justice to explain the…