Lawyers

• Tanzania conducts manhunt after British pilot's death; Poaching a wide-spread problem in Africa

  A manhunt operation is ongoing in Tanzania after a British helicopter pilot was killed and a safari guide was injured during a search after they were hit by poachers from the ground. Five people have been arrested but authorities are looking for the perpetrators in the incident.

• Fearful and desperate, refugees flee Burundi unrest

  They are coming in their thousands, a steady stream of men, women and children bearing what few possessions they can carry as they flee their native Burundi and the pro-government militias they fear are bent on death and destruction.

• Fighting flares after Burundi army chief says coup attempt failed

  The head of Burundi's army said on Thursday that an attempted coup had failed and forces loyal to President Pierre Nkurunziza were in control but heavy gunfire in the capital suggested the battle for power was not yet over.

• Egyptian man gets 25 years in U.S. prison in embassy bombing case

  An Egyptian man was sentenced in New York on Friday to 25 years in U.S. prison in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.

• Bin Laden's ex-secretary loses appeal of life sentence

  Osama bin Laden’s former personal secretary lost a bid to throw out his life sentence for conspiring to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people and injured thousands.

• U.S. embassy bombing suspect dies ahead of New York trial: NBC News

  A suspected al Qaeda figure alleged to have planned the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya has died in New York just days ahead of his scheduled trial, NBC News reported on Friday.

• Kenya jails four men for killing Scottish geologist

  A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced four men to 40 years in jail each after finding them guilty of killing a prominent Scottish gemstone expert in August 2009.

• Rwanda court's forgotten men pose challenge to international justice

  Justin Mugenzi was legally cleared of any role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. But an oversight in the international justice system means he remains a virtual prisoner in a United Nations safe house in the eastern African state of Tanzania.