Rwandan musician sentenced to 10 years for anti-govt plot

One of Rwanda's best-known musicians and a leading journalist are arrested over their alleged links to an opposition group and rebels.

Rwandan musician Kizito Mihigo admits contact with an opposition group but denies involvement in a plot to kill the president at his terrorism trial.

Rapist sentenced to 30 years
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NKASI District Court in Rukwa Region has sentenced a resident of Katongolo Village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Martin Misala (20) to 30 years in jail after he was found guilty of assaulting and raping a 16-year old girl. Reading the judgment on ...

Mohamed Morsy went from prison to the presidency. And now he's going back to prison. The ousted President was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday on charges of inciting violence and facilitating the killing and torturing of protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012.
The verdict is subject to appeal.
Morsy stood trial with 14 co-defendants, including some of his presidential staff. Morsy, who became Egypt's first democratically elected President in June...

The king of Nelson Mandela's Thembu ethnic group was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in jail for torching homes, beating people and kidnapping a family in an supposed attempt to discipline them.

A Ugandan woman named Nambi Fatumah has been sentenced to 5 years in prison together with her baby in Kuwait for getting pregnant outside marriage.

According to the chairperson of the Association of Ugandans living in Asian and Arab countries, Ali Nusbuga, Fatumah was produced to court a few months ago and would have been saved from the verdict had the government and Human Rights bodies intervened.

He said that much it breaks the law in Kuwait for a woman that is not married to get...

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Nigerian Pastor Sentenced To 30 Years In Jail Over Drug Case
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A Tanzanian high court on Friday, November 13, sentenced a Nigerian pastor, Chukwudi Okechukwu to 30 years in prison after being convicted of smuggling cocaine. In his ruling, Judge Amir Mruma ordered that the accused be jailed along his compatriots, ...
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Zimbabwe's Vice-President Joyce Mujuru rejects accusations against her of treachery and corruption as "unfounded" and "ridiculous".