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By Michael Chiotcha A court in Mangochi yesterday sentenced a 21-year-old minibus tout to 10 years in prison for stealing K480,000 from a prison officer. The convict has been identified as Sungeni Kusweje commonly known as 'Sunge'. The Court heard through Mangochi Police Station Prosecution Officer, lnspector Amos Mwase, that on the afternoon of May […]
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The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO THE late tycoon Victor Cohen’s two daughters have obtained a certificate for a private prosecution against Waverley Blankets managing director Aaron Vico whom they accuse of fraudulently wresting the firm away from them using fake documents. The daughters, Amanda Berkowitz and Belynda Halfon are embroiled in a long-drawn legal battle against Vico who allegedly fraudulently took control of the company and its subsidiaries following the death of their father. They turned to private prosecution after seeing that their efforts for a public prosecution were being frustrated. The state refused to prosecute Vico citing lack of evidence. They have also written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking his intervention to no avail. While almost all criminal prosecutions are undertaken by the State, a private prosecution is a criminal proceeding initiated by an individual citizen or private organisation instead of a public prosecutor. The first ever private prosecution in Zimbabwe saw former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke being jailed for raping his 11-year-old niece in 2016. Now that Chief Law Officer in the Prosecutor General’s Office Justin Uladi wrote to Cohen through her lawyers, Mabundu and Ndlovu Law Chambers, on November 25 notifying her that request had been granted, Vico is now set to stand a criminal trial. Vico is accused of fraudulently altering the company’s shareholding and changing company documents with the help of corrupt employees at the Registrar of Companies to exclude other shareholders following Cohen’s death. The deceased family alleges that Vico created new shares amounting to 80% of the company and allocated these to himself. Cohen’s daughters claim the same fraudulent documents that were proved fake by forensic specialists were used to change the ownership of the company and to open new bank accounts. In her affidavit, Amanda, representing the family, stated that in terms of the company documents, Waverly Plastics shareholders are Debra Vico (33 percent), Amanda Cohen (33 percent), Belynda Halfon Nee Cohen (33 percent) and Stella Vicky Cohen (1 percent). Cohen told NewsDay yesterday that she was hoping for justice to prevail after the issuance of the private prosecution certificate. “We had reported the fraudulent activities at the police and National Prosecution Authority (NPA) after discovering fake documents and it has been more than a year without action as we battled efforts to have Vico prosecuted. Justice must prevail now,” she said. “Vico is using his political connections to plunder our late father’s estate. We are just trying hard to get justice but we were consistently blocked in such a way that Vico was favoured even if we had proof of evidence.” Some cases that have been opened against Vico with the police under criminal numbers CID CCD HC CR377/03/19 for Waverley Plastics and another case for companies namely Erica, Blankets for Africa, Colourfast Textiles and Printers. l Follow Winstone on Twitter @widzoanto
Even the prosecutor argued that he should live.
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, ALAN FRAM and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican senators now say President Donald Trump should resign as support for the drive to impeach him a second time is gaining momentum in his final days in office after the deadly riot at the Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania on Sunday joined Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in calling for Trump to 'resign and go away as soon as possible.' Murkowski, who has long voiced her exasperation with Trump's conduct in office, told the Anchorage Daily News […]
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Det. Joshua Jaynes and Det. Myles Cosgrove both received notice on Tuesday that the Louisville Metro Police Department intends to fire them.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) welcomes a \"landmark\" ruling by Kenya's High Court that ordered the government to pay compensation to four female survivors of a wave of sexual violence that unfurled after violently disputed elections in 2007.
The four will each receive the equivalent of around $36,000, while another four plaintiffs -- two women and two men -- had their cases dismissed.
The government was responsible for a \"failure to conduct independent and effective investigations and prosecutions of SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence)-related crimes during the post-election violence,\" the court said.
The result, it said, was a \"violation of their constitutional rights\".
Rights groups found that more than 1,100 people were killed and at least 900 people suffered sexual assaults, including gang rape and castration.
Years later, the International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto for crimes against humanity, but both cases collapsed when witnesses failed to testify.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a charity that helped bring Thursday's case to court, welcomed the \"landmark\" ruling, saying it was the first time in Kenya that post-election sexual violence has been recognised by the government, and compensation offered.
\"After more than seven years of litigation ad delays, some justice has finally been served,\" said Naitore Nyamu, head of PHR's Kenya office.
\"This is a historic day for survivors of the rampant sexual violence perpetrated in the aftermath of the 2007 election.\"
One of the compensated survivors said, \"We are happy that the court has finally recognised the harm that we suffered as victims. However, we do not understand why the court separated us and did not offer compensation for the other four victims.\"
Violence -- including sexual violence -- continues to be a staple of presidential elections in Kenya, where the next vote is due in August 2022.
An official confirmed 37 fatalities and 18 injuries after a bus crash in the western village of Nemale
The Trump administration Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year in what has been a first series of executions during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years, putting to death a Texas street-gang member in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades ago.
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Suburban Denver police officers won’t be charged after detaining four Black girls by gunpoint last summer and handcuffing two of... View Article
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Born: Oakland, California-March 23, 1947 Education: Merritt College (A.A. 1967); California State University (B.A. 1969); University of San Francisco (J.D., magna cum laude, 1977). On June 21, 1991, President Bush appointed Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong to the United States District Court. With her appointment, she became the first African-American woman to serve on the United […]
Yesterday, Chief Executive Officer of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA) – Ibrahim Brima Swaray, presented his 2018 Public Procurement Assessment Report to President Dr Julius Maada Bio, which outlines details of procurement spending by government departments and agencies under the former APC government, as well as president Bio’s New Direction government.
Discussing the report, which is yet to be made public, Ibrahim Brima Swaray said that over the years most of the leakages in national spending had come from procurement activities, adding that when he took office he knew exactly what the government wanted and how to go about it.
The procurement chief also stated that in line with global best practice they, as a regulatory body, will ensure a thorough analysis of how much government spends on public procurement and how that money is spent.
In his response, President Bio said that he is delighted to have the report because it is in line with his government’s promise to ensure the efficient running of state institutions, and making sure that public funds are properly spent.
The country’s National Audit Office, in their report, found that in 2018 alone, millions of dollars were either wasted or misappropriated by government officials through departmental public procurement.
YOUNGSTERS who make a living wiping motor vehicle windscreens at traffic lights have praised Grammy Award-winning international recording artiste Shaggy for his philanthropic Christmas gesture which will see them earning money from sales of copies of his new CD.
[New Times] Plea bargain may as soon as this year start to be used in Rwanda's criminal procedures as the country intensifies the fight against organised crime, The New Times has established.
Get a rundown of the stars who announced that they're expecting, and who you can expect to hear some delivery announcements from soon.
Florida Republicans decried the violence at the pro-Trump protest but appeared careful not to condemn the president. BY RYAN DAILEY NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Florida Republicans decried scenes of chaos and violence in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building and shut down congressional debate over the […]
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NEW Delhi — Mangalesh Dabral, one of the leading Hindi language poets of his generation and translator of Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernesto Cardenal among others, died in India’s capital New Delhi on Dec. [...]
S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization. . .”-Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan As residents of the coronavirus-weary inland region prepare to exit […]
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An inmate at Mutare Farm Prison was yesterday sentenced to 12 months for escaping from lawful custody. BY KENNETH NYANGANI Forgive Zimunya appeared before Mutare magistrate Notebulgah Muchineripi charged with escaping from lawful custody. Prosecutor Chris Munyuku told the court that Zimunya was initially serving time for theft. Zimunya escaped from prison when he was left with only three days on his seven-month sentence. It is the State case that on November 2019 and at Mutare Farm Prison at around 10:30am, correctional officer Thomas Gwiza was on duty and went to clear a bush outside the prison fence with six inmates. They started a fire to make breakfast and told the convict to monitor it while others continued with the task. When they were about eight metres away from the fire, they discovered that the convict was no longer in sight. They searched and called out for him to no avail. Gwiza and other officers went to look for the convict in Zimunya, his home area, and advised the family to inform authorities if he turned up at home. Zimunya was arrested following a tip-off from family members.
[RFI] Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist has claimed responsibility for the weekend attack on a village in neighbouring Niger that left 27 dead.
A woman was crushed to death when her house collapsed, while dozens of homes were damaged after a twister tore through five villages outside Middledrift in the Eastern Cape.
Brandon Bernard spent his 20 years of incarceration counseling others to not follow his path and without any major disciplinary infractions. As reported by The Associated Press, Bernard’s final words […]
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'Africans should invest in Africa to create wealth and jobs'. This has always been the clarion call to the rich and investors from the continent. That call, until recently, has largely been ignored due to the poor business environment and political instability. However, as the democratic culture deepens across the continent, African investors are looking...
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Bidding farewell to 2020, Hollywood star Gal Gadot in an Instagram post, shared a list of “Personal Wonder Women” who inspired her. The diverse list included some of her friends, family members, and known names [...]
Lincolin Kivuti Njeru, pleading for a non-custodial sentence, told probation officers that he regretted the theft through the collapsed Nyaga Stockbrokers.
In a mostly white suburb north of Chicago, George Floyd's killing has opened up some tough talks. And the pastor of a historic Black church there is leading the way by telling his story.
[Premium Times] Shell Nigeria says it has not received a formal report on the matter.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The Trump administration Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year in what has been a first series of executions during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years, putting to death a Texas street-gang member in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades […]
