[The Conversation Africa] Morocco frequently turns to the courts when it doesn't like what its critics have to say. The charges levelled against journalist and historian Professor Maati Monjib reinforce just how common this tendency, which emerged during the 1970s, is in Morocco. The State tries to quash critique among journalists and other public intellectuals by using the judicial system and imposing extr
[Seychelles News Agency] Barbarons -A day after results of the presidential election in Seychelles were announced, international observer missions have made known their preliminary observations of how the whole process was conducted.
[News24Wire] Murder convicted former paralympian Oscar Pistorius intends to apply for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday morning.
[Cameroon Tribune] Police in France are searching for Guillaume Soro, the President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire with a warrant of arrest issued by Sabine Khéris, a judge in a Paris Court.
[Al Jazeera] A middle-aged American citizen who had been fighting for al-Shabab in Somalia has fled the group after angering its leadership with a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).