Justice

Niger was ordered by the ECOWAS court to pay damages to a human rights defender for "arbitrary and illegal detention". It's a first. The West African Economic Community Court (ECOWAS) this week ordered Niamey to pay 50 million CFA francs to Sadat Sadat Ilya Dan Malam. His lawyer announced it on the evening of Thursday, June…

About fifteen of them submitted a text "ready for use" on Thursday, June 24, which could serve as a model for a team. This is a lobbying operation because 18 years after the end of the last civil war, a number of the most infamous warlords and suspected criminals have not yet been brought to justice. The text of the law was…

Joël Aïvo talks about a cell of thirty square meters where he quickly found himself with almost 40 other prisoners, stacked on top of each other. Where it gets particularly cruel is that the prison authorities decided quite quickly to make cohabitants, under these dirty sanitary conditions, prisoners who are sick with Covid-19 and healthy prisoners, who exposed them in an almost safe way. According to the law, it is an obvious and very serious violation of human rights. His situation today has…

On January 7, 2019, in Gabon, a command group led by Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang took control of national radio to broadcast a message about the takeover of a group of young officers. The involvement of loyalist forces quickly put an end to the coup attempt. Two years later, Kelly Ondo and his aides appear before the special military court.…

In Chad, the murder of the prosecutor in Oum-Hadjer in the center of the country, on Wednesday, June 24, 2021, by a dispute, triggers the anger of the judges who do not feel safe. Maître Djonga Arafi, Secretary General of the Union of Chadian Magistrates, denies the lack of protection of judges and therefore the impossibility of properly exercising their judicial power. .

Former Mauritanian President Mohmamed Ould Abdel Aziza was arrested on Tuesday and detained in Nouakchott. He was indicted on March 12 for corruption, embezzlement of public property and money laundering during his presidency between 2008 and 2019. He is not the only former African leader facing justice. Overview. What gives…

Guillaume Soro was sentenced to life in prison by Abidjan's criminal court. The former president of the National Assembly and 19 of his relatives were charged in particular with trying to undermine state authority and conspiracy, spread false news and disrupt public order. 14 defendants were in the box. The others, including Guillaume Soro, were tried in absentia. The court followed the prosecutor's…

In Gabon, on January 7, 2019, young soldiers led by Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang, from the Republican Guard, occupied Gabon's national radio early in the morning and sent a message that the army had taken power. But the special forces' response had made it possible to counter the coup at noon. The arrested putschists appeared before a special military court on Monday, June 21.…

French leaders of Amesys and Nexa Technologies are accused of participating in an act of torture for the sale of surveillance equipment to Egypt and Libya. This follows a complaint from the International Federation for Human Rights and The League of Human Rights. To date, four men, former directors or still in office, have been…

In the Comoros, seven people were sentenced by the Moroni court on Monday, June 21, to up to five years in prison after being arrested in connection with a demonstration against the Azali Assoumani regime on January 7, 2020. The sentences went well beyond what the prosecutor had requested. in his indictment and the minor crimes turned into attacks on public security. For the defendants' lawyers and…