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Bisram secures order preventing DPP from bringing murder charge in High Court
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Jubilee wants Murkomen case out
The Jubilee party has told the High Court that it has no jurisdiction to hear and determine a case filed by ousted Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen and Majority Whip Susan Kihika opposing their removal from the Jubilee Party Senate leadership last
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Somalia: Bomb Blast in Somalia Kills 4 During Eid Celebrations
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Zimbabwe: Zim Doctors Haul Govt to Court Over Deplorable Conditions At Quarantine Centres
Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) on Monday 1 June 2020 petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo to improve the deplorable conditions at some quarantine and isolation centres located across the country, which are housing
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Cameroon: Journalist's Death in Custody Shines Light On Cameroon's War On Media and Sparks Protests
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Zambia: After Seven Years, Displaced Villagers Might Get Land
Dozens of residents evicted by one commercial farmer in 2013 lived out in the open for months, then later in tents or shoddy housing on the fringes of a government forest reserve, with inadequate access to water and no source of livelihood or permission to cultivate
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White Atlanta Police Officer Fired After Shooting a Black Man, Rayshard Brooks, in the Back
After fatally shooting a black man in the back over the weekend, an Atlanta police officer was fired early Sunday, according to CBS
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How Kenya ended up immortalising Jomo’s buddies
In the case of two other friends with origins in the State of Guyana, Ras Makonnen and Cecil Miller, President Jomo Kenyatta gave them Kenyan citizenship, jobs and facilitated their permanent settlement in the country, where he wanted them laid to rest when the time finally
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Top Ugandan police officer fined over $13,000 for selling stolen car to his wife
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Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment
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South Africa: Courts Asked to Compel Government to Feed Learners
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Five women seeking compensation for torture and police brutality meted on them during the 1992 “Mothers of Political Prisoners” demonstrations in Nairobi have suffered a blow after the Court of Appeal threw out their
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A draft Public Protector report containing findings against the former Johannesburg mayor and founder of The People's Dialogue, Herman Mashaba, has seemingly been leaked to the
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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Trump's Legal Challenge To 'Sanctuary' Laws
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25
1941
Black Panther Leaders Killed
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1944
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