Category: Judicial Proceedings
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🇪🇹 Former US Intelligence Contractor Admits Passing Classified Military Secrets to Ethiopia: An Espionage Case With Major Implications for African Security
Former US government contractor Abraham Teklu Lemma has pleaded guilty to conspiring to pass highly classified American intelligence to Ethiopian government officials. The case exposes the intersection of foreign intelligence, military operations, drone warfare and national security during Ethiopia’s internal conflict.
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West Hollywood Makes History with Multi-Partner Domestic Relationship Registry: A New Chapter in the Global Debate on Family, Rights and Social Recognition
West Hollywood, California, is advancing a broader vision of family recognition by extending municipal protections to multi-partner households. The developments highlight evolving conversations around healthcare visitation, detention visitation rights, and rental housing protections, challenging traditional definitions of domestic partnership and household recognition.
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🇨🇭 Swiss Supreme Court Upholds 20-Year Sentence for Former Liberian Rebel Commander
Switzerland’s highest court has upheld Alieu Kosiah’s 20-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during Liberia’s civil war, while overturning his separate crimes-against-humanity conviction because the relevant Swiss law could not be applied retroactively.
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🇬🇭 A Ghanaian Politician wants inmates to have sex with spouses once a month
Ghana is debating a controversial prison-reform proposal after former NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako, known as Chairman Wontumi, called for regulated conjugal and family visits for inmates. Here is what he actually proposed, what Ghanaian law currently permits, and the bigger debate over rehabilitation, family bonds and prison reform.
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🇱🇷 U.S. Embassy Officials Visit Liberian War Crimes Investigators Amid Security Threats
Two U.S. Embassy officials visited Liberia’s leading war-crimes investigation group following renewed death threats against investigators, highlighting growing security concerns as the country moves toward establishing a War and Economic Crimes Court.
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🇺🇸 Rick Ross Arrested in Miami Beach on Domestic Violence Charges; Bond Figures Differ in Public Records
Rapper Rick Ross was arrested in Miami Beach on October 1, 2026, following allegations of domestic violence at his Star Island residence. He was booked at 6:10 a.m. on charges of battery and battery by strangulation. Ross has pleaded not guilty, denies the allegations, and is scheduled to return to court for arraignment on October…
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🇭🇹 The 30 People Indicted in the Killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
By September 2026, the investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has expanded into a major U.S. federal case involving 30 defendants. The allegations describe a multinational conspiracy involving Haitian political and security figures, Colombian former soldiers, alleged financiers, and people accused of using U.S. COVID-relief funds to help finance the operation. The…
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🇱🇷 Jewel Howard-Taylor Released From Prison, Placed Under Strict Home Detention in Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia — September 7, 2026 — Former Liberian Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been released from the Monrovia Central Prison on medical grounds, but the court’s decision does not amount to freedom from the criminal proceedings she is facing. Criminal Court “C” Judge Ousman F. Feika ordered Howard-Taylor transferred from prison to her residence…
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🇱🇷 George Weah Visits Jewel Howard-Taylor at South Beach Prison as Liberia’s Drug Case Draws Political Attention
MONROVIA, Liberia — Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has visited former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor at South Beach Prison, bringing renewed political attention to the high-profile legal case surrounding the former vice president. Weah’s visit comes as Howard-Taylor remains in detention while facing allegations connected to Liberia’s ongoing drug-trafficking investigation. The former vice president…
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🇿🇦 South Africa: Sharpeville massacre victims launch legal action
It’s been more than 60 years since apartheid police opened fire on a 1960 protest in South Africa. Now, Lawyers for survivors and relatives of those killed are launching legal action against the South African government, hoping to overturn a law that has prevented compensation claims. 87 year-old Abram Mofokeng, a Sharpeville massacre survivor, hopes…