Crime - Page 9
International investigations into massacre of Ghanaians in The Gambia lauded
A human rights group on Friday lauded the establishment of a joint United Nations-Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) team to investigate the...
Malaysian tanker bound for Holland hijacked by Somali pirates
A Malaysian tanker carrying palm oil has been seized off the coast of Somalia, regional maritime sources said Thursday. The vessel and more than...
Nine burnt to death as crowd cheers on
In an unprecedented reaction to the rising crime wave in Liberia, nine suspected criminals linked with armed robberies in Monrovia's commercial suburban district of...
PM and top gov’t officials released from captivity, President still in custody
Almost a week after their captivity in the highly criticised coup d’etat, four of Mauritania's high-ranking government officials have been released.
Those released, according to...
Illegal oil refinery operators arrested in Nigeria
The Nigerian military said Monday it had discovered an illegal refinery being operated by suspected militants in the country's restive oil-producing Niger Delta region.
The...
Canada deploys a frigate to Somalia against pirates
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed Canada's decision to deploy a frigate to Somalia to protect the agency's food ships...
Transport minister questioned over abandoned cocaine plane
The police in Sierra Leone have questioned the country's sacked Transport and Aviation Minister Kemoh Sesay over the landing in the country of a...
An unusual serial rapist and killer arrested
Mauritanian police arrested a young man , Ali Sarr, presumed to be in his twenties and suspected of committing a series of rapes and...
Malawian education ministry slams South African printer
Embarrassed by a massive examination paper leakage, the Malawian education ministry on Monday blamed a South African printer for “security laxity”.
About 80,000 students has...
President sacks transport minister over mysterious plane filled with cocaine
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has relieved Transport and Aviation Minister Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay of his duties with immediate effect.
The announcement, which came...
Passenger arrested for threatening to explode plane in mid-air
Paulo Estevao, otherwise called Dangerman, one of the six men acquitted 1 July in the case of the attempted murder of popular Mozambican lawyer...
Kenyan military accused of torture and murders
Kenyan military chiefs are back in the spotlight following fresh revelations of massive human rights violations and what has been termed as war crimes...
S.A. Police search for three women for kidnapping and raping a man
South African police in Rustenburg have launched a manhunt for three women who held a 53-year-old man for three days, robbed him...
Desperate grave looters now stealing coffins
The final words to the dead after burial is for them to "Rest in Peace". But for the dead lying in Accra's public...
Nigeria and UK cooperation to fight oil theft could face opposition from corrupt officials
Britain and Nigeria will be seeking ways to tackle one of the fastest growing criminal rackets in the world, the industrial-scale theft of Nigerian...
Leader of illegal immigration ring arrested in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is being used by scores of illegal immigrants from the Great Lakes region as a gateway into South Africa, the Herald Online...
Rebels ambush and kill UN Peace Keepers in Darfur
The United Nations joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Wednesday condemned the attack on its peacekeeping troops returning from an investigation mission in Sudan's...
Stolen crude oil should be treated like blood diamonds by the international community
Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said on Monday in Hokkaido, Japan, that the Federal Government would soon present a proposal to the United...
16 arrested over savage beatings of three white Zimbabweans
Two elderly white Zimbabwean farmers Mike Cambell (75), his wife Angela (70) who made history by taking the Robert Mugabe regime to a...
Nigeria unleashes Joint Task force to combat MEND
Security operatives in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta reg ion may have begun a manhunt for the militants behind the unending spate of attacks on...
Mbeki’s proposed solution falls on Mugabe’s deaf ears
Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is seriously considering pulling out of next Friday's presidential run-off election after Thabo Mbeki...
Captain Jack Stone released by kidnappers MEND
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has released the American it took hostage during an attack on the offshore Bonga...
MEND responsible for massive shell oil attack
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a Shell oil facility located offshore in...
Attorney general’s office charges military over torture
Kenya's Attorney-General is set to make history, becoming the first civilian to investigate human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the military in an operation...
Thieves sever and steal telephone cables to Presidential residence
Suspected vandals have cut off phone services to Nigeria's presidential villa in the capital city of Abuja, after severing cables belonging to the nation's...
National mourning for victims of xenophobic violence
Rocked by Xenophobic violence, South Africa has set a side a day of national mourning later this month in honour of those killed in...
Mock killings of people in Ethiopia
Ethiopian government has denied involvement in "mock killings" against supporters of the rebel groups in its Somali region and the execution of more than...
Three suspected road robbers burnt alive
A road armed robber and his two accomplices were extracted with force, Wednesday, from the main police station in Kouroussa, 400 km from Conakry...
The crimes of the atlantic slave trade revisited
The African expert group meeting on slavery opened in Banjul on Tuesday with a reminder that this crime against humanity disrupted Africa's political and...
Over 80 Nigerians kicked out of the United States
The United States has deported 87 Nigerians, who were ferried home on a special flight Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported.
The deportees...