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First night in jail for Jacob Zuma. The former South African president, sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt, handed over to police on the night of Wednesday, July 7. He had left his home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal just before midnight and thus avoided police intervention. The urgent appeals brought by his legal team were not sufficient to reject the decision to arrest him issued by the…

Four Cameroonian soldiers received 10-year prison sentences Monday for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked international insurgency, their lawyers said. They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men leveling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to his back. The video was one of several that emerged in recent years with alleged atrocities by Cameroonian forces during operations against…