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The hearing concerning political opponent Ousmane Sonko's reinstatement on the electoral rolls gets underway. His candidacy for the 2024 presidential election depends on the outcome of this hearing. IMAGES
The US Supreme Court is to hear Donald Trump's appeal of the Colorado ballot ban. The question before the nine justices is whether Trump is ineligible to appear on the Republican presidential primary ballot in the state of Colorado because he engaged in an insurrection—the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by his supporters. IMAGES
Donald Trump’s convoy arrives at the Manhattan federal courthouse in New York for a civil case in which the former US president has already been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll. The trial will address how much Trump should be forced to pay for separate remarks he made about Carroll in 2019, as president. She is seeking $10 million in damages. IMAGES
Indigenous people arrive before Brazil's Supreme Court to await a decision on a key case on whether to restrict native peoples' rights to their ancestral lands. So far, five judges have voted to reject the so-called "time-frame argument", which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988, when the country's current constitution was ratified. IMAGES
Security forces are on alert for potential clashes in Dakar as a court prepares to issue a verdict in the trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges. The two-year case has deeply polarised the West African country, igniting accusations of political meddling in the judiciary and sparking violent confrontations between Sonko's supporters and the security forces. IMAGES