'Rebel reporter' in Niger court
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A French reporter accused of illegally filming Niger rebels appears in court, where he faces the death penalty.
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Former Congo warlord Mathieu Ngudjolo appeared for the first time on Monday at the International Criminal Court, where he faces war crimes charges of murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
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The rebels are seeking to force the countryâs president, Idriss DÃ©by, to share power or step down.
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A Sierra Leone clergyman brought the horrors of his country's civil war to a courtroom Tuesday, becoming the first survivor of the carnage to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
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The factional leader of a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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A former Congo warlord was arrested  and taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague on  Thursday to face war crimes charges including murder, sexual  slavery and using child soldiers, the court said.
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A former Rwandan minister was arrested in neighboring Tanzania this week and will be tried for participating in the central African nation's 1994 genocide, a U.N. court said on Tuesday.
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Nigerian police raided an independent newspaper in Abuja and arrested its editor, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) said Wednesday.
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The lawyer representing Moussa Kaka, the correspondent of Radio France International (RFI) in Niger arrested last month, said on Saturday that tapes allegedly linking his client to Tuareg rebels had been illegally recorded.
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The Karlsruhe-based prosecutor&#39;s office said in a statement that the three Iraqi nationals are believed to be members of a rebel group.
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A rebel fighting for autonomy in  Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said he would meet  President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday to discuss terms to  end violence that helped push crude prices to record highs.
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An imprisoned rebel leader wanted in the United States on drug trafficking, kidnapping and terror charges said in an interview published Thursday that he was innocent and was framed by American agents, but he believed his extradition was imminent.
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The first witness in the trial of hte former Liberian President talks, not about atrocities, but about "blood diamonds"
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a two-year prison term for one of Algeria's best known journalists in a case seen by many as a pretext to crush press freedom in this North African country.
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An influential rebel commander in  Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta has ordered the suspension  of peace talks with the government because of military  incursions and the arrest of another commander.
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Nigerian rebel leader Mujahid  Dokubo-Asari said he arrived in the capital Abuja on Wednesday  for talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo after his group  threatened a new offensive against troops in the oil-producing  Niger delta and threatened to target oil workers.
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A rebel fighting for autonomy in  Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta arrived in the capital for  talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday on terms to  end violence that helped to push crude prices to record highs.