A Nigerien-Ivorian journalist has been jailed in Niger over allegations he attempted to destabilise fellow junta-led Sahel nation Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast's consul to Niger said on Wednesday.

An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and ...

TO Abolaji Azeez Aleshe, popularly called BJ, kidnapping while fully armed is an easy way to make money. It is a thriving ...

Niger's military junta has banned the French aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, or Acted, from ...

A Malian dissident was detained in the capital Bamako Wednesday under pressure from authorities in Burkina Faso, who accused him of making "extremely serious remarks" against the neighbouring ...

An Alumni University of Ibadan, says courts should be more resolute in imposing long-term prison sentences on crude oil ...

California State Prison, Solano reported that it is investigating a homicide that took place at the facility Thursday evening. Darian L. Hernandez, an incarcerated man at California State Prison ...

Netflix's ‘Hijack ‘93’ tells the story of four young men who hijacked a plane in 1993 in protest of their government ...

The prosecution has requested a six-year prison sentence for 68-year-old Russian pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova on charges ...

An Almaty regional court in Kazakhstan upheld the 7-year prison sentence handed to journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim for ...

The smell of rat urine was "overpowering" in some parts of Rochester Prison in Kent, according to Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. He wrote to the justice secretary in September ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced plans last week to build a new, 3,000-bed prison near Charleston, in Franklin County. The announcement caught county residents off guard, along with some ...