Crime
Three people arrested for attempting to poison Benin president Yayi
Benin authorities have arrested President Thomas Boni Yayi's doctor, his niece and an ex-minister over a suspected plot to poison the leader, the public...
Julius Malema, South Africa’s politicians reacts to allegation of fraud
Julius Malema, South Africa’s politicians has heatedly react in response to finding carried out on him in absentia in a company he owns shares.
Mr...
Civilian Persecuted by the Rwandan military
Amnesty International accused Rwandan military intelligence services of engaging in torture, unlawful detention and enforced disappearances of civilians on Monday by members of...
Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’
Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, did order the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am 103 Flight that killed 270 people in Scotland, United Kingdom,...
11 year old girl suffers 8 month rape ordeal by 14 men
An 11 year-old girl was raped by 14 men, including eight juveniles and six grown up men, for a period spanning eight months.
Police in...
Human trafficking and sex slave rings on the rise in Southern Africa
Human trafficking between Zimbabwe and South Africa has reached alarming proportions as an average of 7000 people per month are said to be involved....
Huge marijuana plantation discovered in South Africa
Police discoveries of marijuana plantations are becoming common in South Africa as hardly a week goes by without police “stumbling upon” them. A recent...
Cameroon president rushes back home after massive Bakassi abductions
Following the abduction of 11 government officials including Ayuk Edward Taku, Sub-Prefect for the Kombo Abedimo commune in the Bakassi Pennisula of Cameroon between...
Sex for grades in South Africa leads to death
Education officials in South African have shut down a high school following an incident involving an 18 year old female learner. The young student...
Ethiopia: Chinese smugglers risk 10 years in prison
Two Chinese citizens who were apprehended by the Ethiopian Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC) as they tried to smuggle rare Ethiopian artifacts out...
Privatizing Somalia’s war on Piracy
Over 2,000 Somali nationals have been recruited to fight pirates who are terrorizing the African coast under a multimillion-dollar program financed by several Arab...
Piracy in Somalia and Nigeria cause collapse of financial institutions
Somalia, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea, and the Malacca Straits cost the Global economy about $12 billion a year from piracy operations, experts...
Arms cache in South Africa biggest in recent years
South African police have unearthed a massive stockpile of rifles, rocket launchers and hand grenades from a house occupied by serving soldiers and policemen.
The...
Nigeria: Boko Haram extreme group back and stronger?
Authorities in Nigeria are yet to identify suspects following the Christmas season massacre across the country that has claimed over 38 lives in a...
Police Brutality – Big human rights abuse in America
The election of the first black President in the United States and his elevation of the first Latino to the U.S. Supreme Court did...
Mozambique’s presidents stuffing Africa with drugs
Mozambique President Armando Guebuza and past leader Joaquim Chissano
have been fingered as chief culprits in shielding drug barons in the southern African nation, which...
Ugandan children fall prey to human sacrifice
In the last 4 days, two babies have been sacrificed in Uganda. Their bodies were found along roadsides by people going to work early...
Somalia’s anti-piracy war triggers UN and US concern
The United States has expressed concerns over secretly funded anti-piracy militia training to battle pirates and stop criminal activities in Somalia. The U.S State...
ANC debunks report on South Africa’s crime ‘culture’
South Africa’s history of apartheid has been blamed for fermenting a vicious culture of violence that is now deemed as normal way of life.
A...
Nigeria: Rebels resume oil attacks?
Two Americans, two French, two Indonesians and one Canadian have been taken hostage by militiamen in Nigeria after an attack on an oil company...
Toxic counterfeit drugs poisoning hundreds of thousands
Counterfeit medicines are a serious problem afflicting some 90 countries worldwide, and they kill an estimated 700,000 people annually. The key to fighting the...
Morocco’s militant hackers
They are militant hackers who have attacked sites in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Israel... Their screen messages have been likened to messages on banners hoisted...
‘Funny money’ from China a cause of Zambian mineworkers’ shootings?
Mineworkers unions in Zambia have condemned the shooting of 11 Collum Coal Mine workers in Sinazongwe by Chinese managers after they allegedly protested over...
Shock over Zimbabwe’s hard gang-raping women
An unprecedented high rate of women gang-raping men in Zimbabwe has
baffled the country and has forced police boss to institute full scale
investigations into the...
Egypt: Sex, politics, murder and a lot of money
Egyptian real estate tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa's lawyers have vowed to appeal a Cairo court decision to reduce a death sentence against their client...
Nigeria: On the trail of abducted French crew
Four crew members aboard the Bourbon Alexandre (three French and one Thai), a French vessel, were abducted off the coast of Nigeria. Yesterday, in...
Burundi: Fear of civil war looms
Fear of looming rebellion is gripping Burundi following the discovery of fourteen bodies, some of them mutilated with machetes, in a river west of...
Nigeria: President’s kidnapped advocate freed
The national chairman of an independent campaign team mobilizing support for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of forthcoming presidential elections has been released just...
Hilary Clinton condemns mass rapes in DRC
Reports that between 150 and 200 women and children were raped by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prompted pledges...
How I stumbled on my Facebook spy
In the week that Eric Schmidt, Google CEO warned of the danger that the Internet could strip current and future generations of their privacy,...