Legal-Judicial

MADRID— International tourist arrivals doubled in 2022 over the previous year, and should reach near pre-pandemic levels in 2023 thanks to the lifting of travel restrictions, especially in China, the UN’s tourism body said.There were 917 million global...

LIBREVILLE— African countries on Monday called for an end to a “climate injustice” saying the continent causes less than four percent of global CO2 emissions but pays one of the highest prices for globalwarming.Government officials, international organ...

The United States imposed sanctions on three Liberian government officials, including President George Weah's chief of staff, for what it says is their ongoing involvement in public corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday.The sanctions ...

Mali's military junta on Monday said it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by army officers and supported by an unnamed Western state.The statement read on state television said a "small group of anti-progressive Malian officers and non-commissio...

"Even if they shut down all the courts in Nigeria, they must not shut down the court of public opinion," said Agba Jalingo.The investigative journalist and founder of the news website CrossRiverWatch was speaking to VOA via phone from Lagos in Nigeria....

A court in Rwanda has sentenced a Chinese mining engineer to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of tying his workers to a tree and whipping them.A Chinese citizen was convicted Wednesday in Rwanda on charges of torture, according to Rwandan m...

WASHINGTON, The White House held an event Friday afternoon to mark the Senate confirmation of the first African American woman for the Supreme Court.US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris showed up at the South Lawn, alongside Judge Ke...