A UGANDAN High Court judge who also served on the United Nations judicial roster has been sentenced to more than six years in a British prison for exploiting a young woman as an unpaid domestic worker while studying law at…
A COALITION of lawyers in Ghana and the United Kingdom has launched an investigation into what they describe as ‘dire’ working conditions for content moderators employed to review harmful content for social media giant Meta in Accra, Ghana. The probe…
A SOUTH African woman has been found guilty of human trafficking and kidnapping after allegedly selling her six-year-old daughter, who has been missing for over a year. The verdict, delivered on Friday in the coastal town of Saldanha Bay, has…
KENYAN Member of Parliament Charles Ong’ondo Were has been shot dead in the capital, Nairobi, in what police described as a deliberate and premeditated killing that has shocked the nation and reignited concerns about political security. The attack occurred late…
A YOUNG South African doctor has ignited a national conversation on a form of domestic violence that often escapes public attention: financial abuse. In a deeply personal and widely shared video series, Dr Celiwe Ndaba laid bare how her marriage…
POLITICAL parties in Mali are staging a rare united front against the ruling military junta, accusing it of plotting to dismantle the country’s multiparty democracy. The growing backlash follows the junta’s latest move to repeal the charter governing political parties,…
COTE d’Ivoire is phasing out street names linked to its colonial past in favour of Ivorian icons, in a $17 million renaming project backed by the World Bank. The effort, now visibly underway in Abidjan, marks a bold move to…
The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) (www.IsDBInstitute.org) is delighted to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent for the Institute’s groundbreaking solution, the Smart Voucher System. The Patent number 12282916 was granted on…
WILDFIRES sweeping through forested areas near Jerusalem have led to a national emergency in Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that the fire could soon reach the capital city itself. The fires, described as some of the most severe…
A recent investigation has revealed horrifying details about the death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was allegedly tortured and killed while in Russian custody. The 27-year-old journalist had been reporting on illegal detentions and human rights abuses in Russian-occupied…
