Crime - Page 5
Tanzania: Albinos in hiding after attacks
As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to...
Charles Taylor the man who ‘forgot’ he killed thousands
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia is the first Head of State currently on trial at the International Criminal Court in...
Botswana prisoners tortured and forced to have homosexual sex
Prison inmates revealed to the Gaborone Extension 2 Magistrate Court, this week, how the Gaborone Maximum Security Prison torture routines follow the notorious Guantanamo...
Sierra Leoneans scorn initiative to enlist youths into police force
The government of Sierra Leone has moved to include youths in its law enforcement sector to boost the efforts of the police in their...
Nigeria: Relief as government releases allowances to rebels
There is a sigh of relief in the Niger Delta as the Federal government of Nigeria began the first installments of monthly allowances that...
Uganda: Escaped LRA fighters and abducted children return home
Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and abducted children, who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),...
Southern Sudan: LRA rebels resume reign of fear, several people killed
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have resumed attacks on villages in southern Sudan killing several civilians in the last four days.
Last year a joint...
Angola: Chinese violence and murders, protest or criminality?
The spate of violence against Chinese nationals in Angola is fast becoming an issue of concern. A sense of neocolonialism amongst some Angolans is...
South Africa’s “shoot and kill the bastards” policy questioned
South African police have been boldly told to "shoot the bastards", further cementing the widely criticized government “shoot to kill" policy against criminals.
Topping...
Uganda: LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony’s relatives live in fear
Relatives of LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony have said that they live in fear of people avenging the atrocities committed by Kony and his...
Zimbabwe: Several tortured soldiers die after UN expert is refused entry
12 members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) are reported dead
after allegedly tortured on accusation of stealing 20 AK 47 rifles at
Pomona Barracks.
A huge...
Controversy in the UK over Ivory Coast toxic disaster
In 2006, more than 30,000 Ivorians fell victim to high levels of poisonous gasses from a lethal toxic waste which was dumped by an...
Guinea: EU calls for justice, ECOWAS warns of dictatorship
The European Union is demanding that Guinean military junta, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, stand in court for trials of oppression and crimes against humanity....
South Africa: Kidnapped, Raped and Stabbed for being gay…
The verdict is long overdue: Themba Mvubu will spend the rest of his life in prison. Accused of the abduction, rape and murder of...
Tanzanians to be hanged for gruesome Albino ritual murders
Three men who attacked and killed a young albino boy in Tanzania have been condemned to death by hanging, a Tanzanian court has ruled....
South Africa still the world’s number one Rape and Murder haven?
South Africa, a country regarded as one of the most violent in the world, last year recorded a decline in murder rates but at...
Trafigura in Africa: A crime against humanity
This week the controversial oil trading company Trafigura found itself in the limelight once again, following a revelation by the British press showing evidence...
Ivory Coast: Massive population poisoning, Dutch oil-trading company guilty?
Trafigura, would have purposefully dumped deadly chemicals in Ivory Coast that poisoned and killed thousands of people in 2006. An Ivorian contractor Solomon Ugburogbu,...
Somali Piracy: U.K., Cyprus, Japan, Singapore, U.S. sign New York declaration
In a concerted effort to coordinate international naval patrols, shipping self-protection measures and discourage the payment of millions of dollars in ransom to pirates,...
Ghana: Shocking American’s paedophile sex tape scandal condemned
A disturbing story about a sex tape showing a 65- year-old retired male teacher from Minnesota in the United States of America having sex...
Zimbabwe: 80 year old woman armed robber on the run
The dollarisation of the crumbling Zimbabwe economy has got robberies to be more daring in the missions. Police in Harare have launched a massive...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s prisoner amnesty questioned
President Robert Mugabe, the man widely seen as cruel, has this week shown some compassion on his fellow countrymen. He has granted clemency to...
Men on Men rape cases in DR Congo: The ordeal of “bush wives”
Nearly 200 000 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fallen victim to sex crimes since 1996. Very little is known about...
South African airport theft under review ahead of 2010 World Cup
South African aviation authorities say twelve out of every 20 000 bags
are tampered with at South Africa's airports every day. Pilferage from baggage at...
Zimbabwe: Biti death threats connected with Defence minister’s bitterness over proposed mining laws?
Zimbabwe Finance minister Tendai Biti on Monday morning received a live bullet and a written note enclosed in an envelope addressed to him at...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s nephew to face court as incriminating videos are released
Zimbabwean President's nephew who is accused of leading party militants and war veterans to disrupt a crucial constitutional conference in Harare would soon...
South Africa – Zimbabwe border fences disappear: Opposition expresses fears
Large sections of the border security fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe have been stolen as the South African police have reduced patroling the...
Nigeria: Amnesty and release of hostages, end of Niger Delta crisis?
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have conveyed a message of peace to the Nigerian government by setting free every...
Ethiopian man, jailed over US diplomat’s murder, claims ‘rape’
A 23-year-old man who was arraigned before the Ethiopian High Court, on homicide charges, has been sentenced to a 17-year prison term over the...
Liberia: Charles Taylor to speak in his own defense at The Hague
Former Liberian warlord and president, Mr. Charles Taylor will be allowed to speak in his defense at the International Criminal Court in The Hague,...