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Southwark Crown Court Sunday sentenced three fund managers to a total of 12 years and three months imprisonment following a seven year investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Frederic Marino, Yoshiki Ohmura and Aurelien Bessot were convicted for their involvement in a fraud that caused the Libyan Sovereign Wealth [...]

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Commonwealth observers in Lesotho Sunday released a statement commending the people of Lesotho for the “calm and peaceful atmosphere” during the nation’s 2022 general elections. The Commonwealth sent a six person team to monitor the polls in Lesotho at the request of Lesotho’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer Group and former [...]

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Amnesty International Wednesday said Lesotho must address police brutality, extrajudicial killings and torture ahead of the nation’s October 7 elections. The organization has collected evidence of many instances of torture at the hands of law enforcement and hopes candidates will make human rights a priority before and after the upcoming vote. This January, the Lesotho [...]

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With the recent Russia-Ukraine conflict dominating news headlines across the world, a more subtle development involving another violation of international law appears to have garnered little attention – the United Kingdom’s ongoing illegal occupation of the Chagos Archipelago, a group of islands located in the Indian Ocean about 1300 miles from Mauritius. This new development [...]

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A Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Mauritius says that a new petroleum bill advancing in that Indian Ocean country off the coast of Africa has significant implications for climate change and raises concerns about corruption, conflict of interest, and government mismanagement. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. Last [...]

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“Somalia is a land that has descended so deeply into misery that “failed state” is too generous a description for the country.” –TIME Magazine In August 2020, three Iranian hostages who had been held for five years were freed by Somalian pirates, as contradictory news emerged that another ship had been intercepted after a three-year [...]

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Angola’s parliament approved a new penal code Wednesday that drops provisions widely interpreted to criminalize homosexuality. The new penal code is Angola’s first since it gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. The prior code contained many holdover provisions from the colonial era, including a ban of “vices against nature,” which was understood to criminalize [...]

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