Horrific scenes saw over 160 women raped and children dead in fires after the prison break at Munzenze near Goma last Monday ...

By Spoorthy Raman A South African court in January sentenced four poachers to several years in prison for two separate crimes ...

Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran after 15 years in exile ...

An officer with the Utah National Guard deployed to Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, pleaded ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said. The incident occurred in the Congolese city of Goma after M23 rebels ...

Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

A Tunisian court sentenced a number of top politicians, former officials and journalists to long prison terms on Wednesday, defence lawyers said, the latest move in what critics say is an attempt to ...

He served two months in prison for contempt of court but has also been charged with corruption, racketeering, fraud, tax ...

The spirit of former President Nelson Mandela will come alive at the historic Drakenstein Correctional Centre on Saturday, 8 February, as the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) hosts the 27 for ...