A US man whose murder conviction was the focus of the popular Netflix series Making a Murderer will have his case re-examined by a court in Wisconsin. Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of young freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. He says he is innocent. Avery has won a motion to appeal based on possible ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, final results from Saturday’s general election show. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of just under four million votes. Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. Delays and violence marred the run-up to the poll but no ...

The US House of Representatives has voted to revoke President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration over building a US-Mexico border wall. The bid to overturn the declaration now goes to the Republican-majority Senate, where some conservatives have said they will vote with Democrats. Mr Trump, who declared the emergency after Congress refused funding for the wall, has said he will veto ...

United National Independent Party (UNIP) Deputy Secretary General Reverend Alfred Banda says genuine dialogue is the only solution to end political violence which has escalated to very alarming and dangerous levels in the recent past. Rev Banda says the country needs political will especially from the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development (UPND) to end ...

Government has been challenged to explain the logic in inviting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to Zambia when the Opposition Alliance has already hinted on doing so. Former Finance Minister Nga’ndu Magande does not think it is necessary for government to send another request to the ICC to investigate complaints against it. Mr. Magande is of the view that as ...