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Sierra Leone allows ex-president Koroma to leave country on medical grounds

Sierra Leone allows ex-president Koroma to leave country on medical grounds

A Sierra Leone high court allowed ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged this month with treason, to travel abroad on medical grounds. Koroma, 70, was charged with four offences for his alleged role in a failed military attempt to topple the West African country's government in November. There are concerns Koroma's indictment could stoke tension brought by a contentious election in which President Julius Maada Bio was reelected for a second term in June 2023. The main opposition candidate rejected the results and international partners questioned the vote. Months later, on November 26, gunmen attacked military barracks, a prison and other locations in…
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South African court denies class action against Anglo American

South African court denies class action against Anglo American

SOUTH Africa's High Court has ruled that a class action lawsuit against miner Anglo American brought by victims of alleged historic lead poisoning in Zambia should not go ahead, lawyers for the claimants said. Victims of the alleged poisoning had accused Anglo's South African unit of negligence in controlling emissions of lead into the local environment at a mine it part-owned 50 years ago in Zambia's Kabwe district. Anglo has previously denied the allegations and vowed to defend itself. "We have stated from the outset that this claim is entirely misconceived and it is clear that the court recognised its multiple legal…
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Prince Harry was phone-hacking victim and editors knew, London court rules

Prince Harry was phone-hacking victim and editors knew, London court rules

PRINCE Harry scored the biggest win yet in his legal war against British tabloids when London's High Court ruled he had been a victim of phone-hacking and other unlawful acts by Mirror Group journalists with the knowledge of their editors. King Charles' younger son, who became the first senior British royal for 130 years to give evidence in court when he appeared at a trial in June, was awarded 140,600 pounds (around $180,700) after the judge agreed he had been targeted by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). The judge's conclusion that the editors of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and…
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Kenyan court strikes down housing levy, stays ruling until Jan 10

Kenyan court strikes down housing levy, stays ruling until Jan 10

KENYA'S High Court declared unconstitutional a 1.5% levy intended to fund affordable housing that was imposed as part of a finance law adopted in June but later stayed the ruling until January 10 to allow for the government to appeal. The law, which also doubled the fuel tax and increased the top income tax rate, sparked violent protests in July by opponents who said it would further squeeze households at a time of rising living costs. In its ruling, the court said the government had not provided a rational explanation for why it had imposed the housing levy only on workers with…
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Namibia had no power to cancel Chinese miner’s licence, court rules

Namibia had no power to cancel Chinese miner’s licence, court rules

NAMIBIA'S mines minister did not have the power to cancel a Chinese lithium miner's licence and should have approached the courts to revoke it, a judge ruled. Lithium miner Xinfeng took Namibia's mines minister Tom Alweendo to court after he cancelled the company's mining licence in April and ordered it to stop operations by May 31. The minister accused the company of obtaining the licence after a flawed application process. Xinfeng challenged the minister's decision in Namibia's High Court, arguing that Alweendo did not have the power to revoke his earlier decision to grant the mining licence. "The first respondent…
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Nigerian court orders detained central-bank governor to have access to lawyers

Nigerian court orders detained central-bank governor to have access to lawyers

NIGERIA'S High Court has ordered the country's state security service to allow detained central bank governor Godwin Emefiele access to his lawyers, an interim court ruling seen by Reuters showed. Emefiele was suspended by President Bola Tinubu this month as part of the new president's drive to reform the central bank, which went on to remove restrictions on foreign currency trading, to the delight of investors. "The lawyers of the applicant (Emefiele) shall have access to the applicant immediately and regularly, at a reasonable time, pending the determination of the application", Judge Hamza Muazu said in a ruling on Friday. Emifiele's application cited the…
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Prince Harry tells court: ‘Nobody wants to be phone hacked’

Prince Harry tells court: ‘Nobody wants to be phone hacked’

PRINCE Harry finished giving evidence at the High Court in London during a second day of grilling over his allegations that British tabloids targeted him with phone hacking and other unlawful behaviour. Harry and others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror and other tabloids, accusing them of widespread unlawful activities. MGN is contesting the claims and denies senior figures were aware of wrongdoing. Below are quotes and highlights from the courtroom where Harry faced hours of cross-examination in the witness box over two days: 'IT'S A LOT' At the conclusion of Harry's evidence, his lawyer David Sherborne…
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Prince Harry tells London court ‘vile’ press has blood on its hands

Prince Harry tells London court ‘vile’ press has blood on its hands

PRINCE Harry launched a fierce attack on the "vile" press, blaming tabloids for destroying his adolescence and later relationships, as he gave evidence against a tabloid publisher whose titles he accuses of unlawful activities. Harry, the fifth-in-line to the throne, became the first senior royal to appear in a witness box in more than a century in a lawsuit he and 100 others have brought against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). They accuse the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, of widespread phone-hacking and unlawful information gathering between 1991 and 2011. The younger son of King Charles…
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Multi-billion power tender challenged in SA court

Multi-billion power tender challenged in SA court

A South African government tender for 2 000 megawatts of emergency power has been challenged in court by one of the companies that lost out, potentially delaying capacity being added to the grid and prolonging an electricity crisis. South Africa's DNG Power wants the High Court to review its disqualification from the tender and prevent the government from signing and implementing agreements with the preferred bidders, court papers seen by Reuters show. The government named the eight preferred bidders last month. Turkey's Karpowership was a major winner, with three of its floating gas power stations among the eight projects chosen…
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