insert_link Africa Chinese national sentenced to death for Nigerian girlfriend’s murder A Chinese man has been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria for killing his girlfriend, Ummukulsum Buhari. The 47-year-old man was charged by the government of Kano state, in Nigeria's northwest where the incident happened. todayMarch 27, 2024 29
insert_link World UN condemns death sentences in Ukraine The UN human rights office has expressed concern at the sentencing to death of a Moroccan man and two Britons by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine, saying such trials against prisoners of war amounted to a war crime. The UN says the three were part of Ukraine's armed forces, and therefore could not be described as mercenaries. The AFP news agency reports that Brahim Saadoun was a student […] todayMarch 5, 2024 17