Kenya jail frees 100-year-old woman

Court frees woman who killed husband over maize flour
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THE Court of Appeal has ordered the release from prison of a housewife, Juliana Mocha, after reducing to one year the 10-year jail sentence imposed on her for killing her husband over the misuse of maize grains meant for ugali. Justices Edward ...

A lead pastor at Ruaya Lutheran Church in Kilimanjaro Region, Zawadiel Maruchu, has been sentenced to one year in jail after being convicted of conning a woman Sh8.3 million in a dubious land deal.

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

A Norwegian ship detained in Kenya's Mombasa port for more than a week on suspicion of carrying drugs and illegal UN weapons is released.

>Three days after court handed a four-year jail sentence to housemaid Jolly Tumuhiirwe for assaulting a baby, the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has come out to brand the whole prosecution process a ‘miscarriage of justice’.

The four convicts were also ordered to pay Sh10.8bn fine. Their case was heard for 23 days

Two murder suspects were injured after their attempt to run away from a Resident Magistrate’s court in Mara Region failed.

In Ethiopia, a Federal First Instance Court sentenced Yonas Kassahun to two years in jail for hacking into the email account of Akiko Seyoum,  general manager of the Orchid Business Group. This happened On October 22, 2014. In a separate civil lawsuit, Yonas also seeks 42 million Br from Akiko. Progress remains unclear on "evidence" of money laundering by Akiko which Yonas claims to have passed to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) nearly a year ago.

The Court passed a guilty verdict against...