Crime Africa

Female prisoners in Kenya are calling for a change in laws that prevent them from enjoying sexual intimacy with their spouses when they visit them in jail. The sex starved inmates have been making this demand since 2014. They claim the current laws only allow a very limited time for …

Limpopo police are investigating a case of murder after the body of a man was found floating in the Nwanedzi river on Christmas morning. In a statement, police said they were called out to the scene by community members in the early hours of Friday. “The police in Letsitele were …

Seven people died and at least 45 were injured in protests that erupted after police arrested Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine on Wednesday, Ugandan police said. “As of yesterday evening we had seven people who lost their lives, about 45 people got injuries including an LDU (armed …

The South Sudan National Security Service tribunal court in Juba on Tuesday sentenced its officer to four years imprisonment and dismissed him from active service after he was found guilty of murder. In 2017, Captain Robert Benjamin was arrested and detained after he was accused of killing his colleague Daniel …

A BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed the existence of a secretive but thriving illegal market for babies and young children in Kenya. For over a year, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated a series of child trafficking rings that extend from the slums of Nairobi to one of the …

Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national human rights body said on Sunday, as fears grow of a security vacuum in the country amid a military campaign in the north. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said the …

The leaders said that they are going to imprison gay and lesbian couples for not being like normal families because they can’t have kids. ‘We would like to shut them [gay couples] up in a room and see if they can get pregnant; if they don’t, then it’s jail because they have …

Thursday morning saw a dark cloud of tragedy hang over the Regional Hospital of Kumba, Cameroon as many gathered to mourn seven students shot in cold blood by armed men at the College St Mother Francisca a week ago. This funeral comes only 24 hours after an attack on a …

A video at the front desk of mynewsghana.net has shown moments police were seen firing guns at protestors who were demonstrating to call for an end to the SARS who kept brutalizing the people of Nigeria. The policemen were seen arming their weapons on some unarmed civilians who were peacefully protesting . …

A Northern Cape man who raped his ex-girlfriend four times will spend the next 70 years behind bars. Keatlhotse Mothowakae, 25, was found guilty on four counts of rape by the Mothibistad Regional Court for raping his ex-girlfriend in 2015 and 2016. According to police spokesperson Captain Olebogeng Tawana, the …