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Rising killings of Africans in Ukraine raises concerns
The UN refugee agency on Tuesday joined over 30 other organisations in condemning the recent murder of a Nigerian national in the Ukrainian capital...
Arrests of xenophobic criminals in South Africa
Two South African miners accused of intimidating their African colleagues, mostly Mozambicans at the East Rand Proprietary Mines (EPRM) at Boksburg, near Johannesburg, have...
Tsvangirai’s big gesture to assist victims of political violence
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday launched an initial Z$150 trillion
(approx $US300 000) welfare fund to assist victims of political violence which has seen dozens...
Sex abuse by peacekeepers and aid workers not reported
The extent of sexual abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers is being under-estimated because mechanisms to encourage victims to speak out against their attackers...
‘Genocide’ Singer may get life in prison
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged that a life imprisonment be imposed on Simon Bikindi, a Rwandan musician...
Investigating the brain behind South African xenophobic attacks
A top African diplomat who has served in the southern Africa region in an interview conducted by panapress in Arusha said that the mayhem...
Rebel group attack Shell pipelines killing 11 men
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said Monday it killed 11 soldiers during an early morning attack on a Shell...
Several presumed rebels killed in Senegal
Two soldiers of the Senegalese army and seven presumed members of the Casamance Democratic Forces Movement (MFDC) were killed on Tuesday evening in clashes...
Kenya concerned by South African xenophobic and gang attacks
Kenya has expressed deep concerns over the xenophobic attacks in South Africa and ordered all its nationals in the country to immediately report any...
Mugabe prepares to announce state of emergency to cling to power
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Justice (ZLJ), a shadowy grouping of lawyers yesterday called on beleaguered Robert Mugabe to consider declaring a state of...
Zimbabwe opposition wants torture camps to close
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Monday reiterated its demand to have 'torture camps' in Zimbabwe's rural areas disbanded as a pre-condition for...
Hijackers seize Jordanian ship off the Somali coast
A ship manned by Kenyan, Tanzanian and Asian crew members was hijacked off the Mogadishu Port in Somalia by suspected Somali pirates Sunday morning.
The...
Egyptian man sentenced to one thousand years in prison
An Egyptian man has been sentenced to 1,000 years in prison after being convicted of laundering over 280 million Egyptian pounds (U$52 million).
An Egyptian...
Nigeria loses over 1 billion US dollars to fuel vandalism
Nigeria lost 150.5 billion naira to fuel pipeline vandalisation between 2000 and 2007, according to a report by the Petroleum Product Marketing Company (PPMC),...
MEND condemns seizure of US Chevron vessel
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said it is not responsible for the seizure of a supply vessel operated...
French police under fire for the death of young Tunisian
Witnesses accused the police of blunder following the arrest and death of a young Tunisian on Friday in the city of Grasse (South East...
South Africa : Two immigrants killed in Jo’burg xenophobic attacks
Tensions are running high in Johannesburg, South Africa, after a series of attacks on immigrants in Alexandra township north of the city.
Police said two...
Mozambique murder trial continues
The trial before the Maputo City Court of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva took an unexpected turn...
Namibian Anti money laundering and Financial Intelligence Act soon effective
Namibia's first ever anti-money laundering law will become effective in July, paving the way for monetary authorities and law enforcement agencies to effectively monitor...
Liberia charges Gyude Bryant and two others with economic crimes
The Liberian government has indicted former head of s tate, Gyude Bryant, along with two legislators and two former officials of the Liberia Petroleum...
MP’s mother abducted in Nigeria
The rising spate of kidnapping for ransom continued in Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta region Friday, with the abduction of the mother of the...
Morocco court postpones factory fire case
The case of Rosaor Ameublement, the factory that burned down April 26 causing the death of 56 workers, took an unprecedented turn in the...
Kenya : Brutal killing of World Food Programme head
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that unidentified gunmen shot dead the head of WFP's office in the northwestern Kenyan town...
Tens of thousands of local Zimbabwean farmers violently removed
An estimated 40 000 farm workers and their dependants have been violently removed from farms countrywide rendering them homeless and ZANU-PF ...
Ethiopia accuses AI for resorting to fabricated stories
Ethiopia has accused human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) of lending itself to a smear campaign against Ethiopian troops protecting the Transitional Federal Government...
Zimbabwe : Zanu-PF issues licence to kill
A group of Zanu-PF youth militants, one of whom was dressed in Zimbabwean army uniform and armed with an AK47 assault rifle, launched an...
Nigeria : Armed thieves dismember policemen
Armed robbers in Nigeria seem to have grown from killing policemen to amputating them, going by the revelations made by Nigeria police boss Sunday...
Shell Nigeria warned by unions over planned massive lay-off
The umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Nigerian subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell against the reported plan to sack 3,500...
Albinos victims of human sacrifices
Water-Genies, fortune tellers, half-men half-gods, those are some of the attributes associated with albinos in some countries in Africa. Sought after for their good...
Liberian court rules on treason cases
Liberia's Criminal court in Monrovia on Friday acquitted two senior soldiers of the defunct Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) after being found not guilty...