Artist felt indeterminate jail term was like death sentence, inquest told

The emergency doctor who was pitchside when Cameroonian Patrick Ekeng died in Romania in 2016 has been handed an 18-month suspended jail sentence for negligence.

The actor's new film tells the true story of an escape by anti-apartheid activists from Pretoria Prison in 1979.

A court in Egypt sentences ousted President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him and his two sons guilty of embezzlement.

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Inquest into death of tragic teen Jack Burden could be held in Tanzania
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An inquest into the death of a teenager who died while helping disadvantaged children in Africa is likely to be held abroad. Jack Burden, 18, was on a school trip of a lifetime with pals from Harton Technology College in South Shields when it is thought he ...

Will he be jailed or could he compete in Rio Olympics?

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius begins serving time in jail, after being sentenced for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

A South African king who is a nephew of the late Nelson Mandela has begun a 12-year prison sentence for kidnapping, assault and arson.

Court reduces killer husband's jail sentence by 10 years
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THE Court of Appeal has reduced by ten years the 40-year imprisonment sentence imposed on a resident of Mbeya Region, Bernard Kapojosye, for killing his wife over jealousy. Justices Edward Rutakangwa, Steven Bwana and William Mandia reached such ...

Yona and Mramba who served as Finance and Energy and Minerals ministers respectively in Benjamin William Mkapa’s administration, were sentenced on Monday by the Kisutu court to serve three years in jail after being convicted on several counts of abuse of office and occasioning Sh11.7 billion loss to the government.