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THE corruption trial of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi has been delayed until next Tuesday to allow State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele 's advocate to get further instructions. (AllAfrica)

New evidence has emerged showing that both local and foreign lawyers probably did not want the Chiluba corruption case to die because they were making a killing. (AllAfrica)

Several ruling party lawmakers yesterday moved to defy odds and throw their weight behind the opposition's crusade against the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008. (AllAfrica)

A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month. (AllAfrica)

The Federal Government is proposing to buy four more aircraft for the presidential fleet, according to the 2010 Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly yesterday by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. (AllAfrica)

MDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett has described his terrorism trial, which began two weeks ago, an 'absolute farce' and 'a joke.' The MDC official, who has not been sworn into government as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture because Robert Mugabe is refusing to swear him in, said he is frustrated with the slow pace the trial is taking. (AllAfrica)

A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences. (AllAfrica)

A BUSINESS trip to Namibia went badly wrong for an Israeli woman involved in the diamond industry last week, when she found herself being arrested, charged and finally fined N$50 000 for having brought diamonds into Namibia without a licence. (AllAfrica)

The Gacaca court of Ngoma recently sentenced in absentia a former vice Rector of the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to life imprisonment with special provisions for his role in the 1994 Genocide at the university, in which over 400 students and staff died. (AllAfrica)

The awareness of the proposed Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 by Ugandans has declined since last year by 11 percent, a new poll has revealed. (AllAfrica)

A Nigerian court will this week begin the trial of a 23 year-old Internet fraudster, Okoro Osagie Victor, who swindled an estimated $96,607 (Sh7.1 million) mostly from young American and German ladies, reports said. (AllAfrica)

The Supreme Court will on February 19, 2010 deliver judgement on the appeal brought before it by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against a ruling of the Court of Appeal, Jos which allowed Sen. Usman Albishir's application in spite of filing it out of time. ANPP and INEC want the Apex Court to determine whether the appellate court was right to have allowed Albishir to file an appeal out of time. (AllAfrica)

An Abuja High Court yesterday freed the National Coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins and two others of charges of N7.740 billion fraud brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). (AllAfrica)

A Lagos High Court yesterday sentenced a former Director in the Oyo State Civil Service Mrs. Helen Banke Laoye to 20 years imprisonment on a two count charge of fraud levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. (AllAfrica)

Senior state counsel, Nebo Jones of the attorney general chambers has urged the special criminal court, pressided over by justice Moses Richards not to grant bail to the 28 accused persons standing criminal trial at the Brikama magistrates court on charges of arson, willful damage to propeties, conspiracy to commit felony, going armed in the public among others. (AllAfrica)

Three suspected persons were last Friday, November 20, 2009 arrigned before justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court in Banjul on two counts of conspiracy to commit felony and robbery contrary to section 368 and 272 respectively. (AllAfrica)

The deputy director of public prosecution, DDPP Mikailu Abdulahi yesterday, told the special criminal court that the state intends to close the prosecution case in the matter involving one Morris F Kallon who is standing trial on rape charge. (AllAfrica)

Justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court in Banjul last Friday cautioned the father of an allged rape suspect to warn his son's lawyer to come to court and do his job. (AllAfrica)

The National Criminal Investigation Department (DNIC) is improving its working methods with view to satisfactorily respond to fighting against crime in the country. (AllAfrica)

Animal Rights Africa says dozens of bare-handed people kill the animal in a cruel and undignified way. (AllAfrica)

Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has reiterated its call for commercial sex work to be legalised in the country. (AllAfrica)

Is it the world against Vusi and vise versa? Just when everybody was starting to hope that Vusi Mtokufa's problems would fade away, comes another conflict between him and his manager-producer Reuben Lekoeje. (AllAfrica)

The police have said they are still on the trail of smugglers suspected to have driven trucks loaded with high quality cigarettes into Botswana from Zimbabwe. (AllAfrica)

The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) in collaboration with the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA) organizes, from 23rd to 24th November 2009, in Banjul (Gambia), a Workshop on Roles of the Insurance Industry in Combating Money Laundering and other Financial Crimes. The objectives of the seminar are to: (AllAfrica)

The Deputy Prosecutor and Head of Prosecution Division at the International Criminal Court, Gambian born Mrs. Fatou Bensouda has been presented with the prestigious International Jurists Award for 2009. This award is for Mrs. Bensouda's sterling contribution in the field of criminal law at national as well as international level. It was presented to her by the President of India Honourable Pratiba Devisingh Patil at an international conference held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. The conference was organised by the International Conference of Jurists along with All India Bar Association and India Council of Jurists from the 21st to the 22nd of November 2009. (AllAfrica)

The wrongful dismissal case involving one Alieu Faal and Modou Jarjue against the Medical Research Council (MRC) on Tuesday, 17 February 2009, failed before the High Court in Bundung. (AllAfrica)

The Attorney General has withdrawn an appeal filed at the Court of Appeal against the order of the Human Right Court asking the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to release the passport of Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Akwasi Osei-Adjei. (AllAfrica)

An Accra Fast Track High Court (FTC) has quashed the directives of the President, His Excellency Prof John Evans Atta Mills, ordering the interdiction of the Principal Accountant of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, following a National Security investigation report on alleged financial impropriety by Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, then Minister of Youth and Sports. (AllAfrica)

The trial for former Liberian president Charles Taylor took an early adjournment today when immediately after the mid-morning break, one of the judges reportedly fell ill. Prior to the court's adjournment, the accused former Liberian president denied allegations that he sent his rebel fighters to attack neighbouring Guinea, saying that he gave approval to "hot pursuit missions" which entered into the neighboring country. (AllAfrica)

The Senate and the House of Representatives will separately receive the Federal Government's 2010 budget of N4 trillion today, dousing the tension that had existed between the two houses over the venue for the budget presentation. (AllAfrica)