At least 13 people have died while held in custody in an overcrowded police cell in Mozambique.

Up to 1,000 people have been taken from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio

The International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, discusses the ICC's work in the wake of the court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's Pr

Sudanese authorities have a legal obligation to arrest President al Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed during the conf

Nigeria’s state governments have been urged not to extend the death penalty to include crimes such as kidnapping.

Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming reality.

The Supreme Court of Uganda has ruled however, that the death penalty per se remains constitutional.

The President of Zambia has commuted the death sentences of 53 prisoners to custodial sentences.

Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko was abducted from her home by armed state security agents, at around 5am on 3 December 2008.