AFRICA

It’s been a bloody week in Cape Town as four people have been killed in what is believed to be gang-related incidents. On Friday morning, Steenberg police attended to a crime scene in Hek Street, Lavender Hill, where according to reports, a 39-year-old man was shot and wounded. The victim …

The 24th of January 2017 was a cold, foggy day in London. At midday John Axford, of the auctioneers Woolley and Wallis, was in his office in upmarket Mayfair, waiting to meet a visitor from Belgium who wanted to show him a sculpture. “He produced this particularly beautiful piece,” said …

Zimbabwe at the ongoing Commonwealth summit in Rwanda continued with lobbying for readmission 18 years after it was thrown out of the body over allegations of human rights abuses. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government submitted an application on May 15, 2018 to re-join the grouping of 54 countries, a year after …

A young man has stirred a topic on social media after a video of him flogging his girlfriend mercilessly surfaced. The incident reportedly occurred on Monday in Kwara state, where the boyfriend identified as Fatai resides. The girl identified as Aduke is an HND1 student of Bartholomew College of Health …

Better late than never. That was the general reaction to Prince Charles’ opening speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali on Friday. The prince will succeed his mother as head of the organization — an association of independent states that emerged out of the ashes of the …

Gunmen have kidnapped 22 farmers from their fields just outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja, local police said Friday, in the latest wave of mass abductions in the country. Heavily-armed criminals known locally as bandits frequently attack rural areas with poor security in the northwest and central regions, but mass kidnappings are …

Suspects linked to the killing of at least 40 people in a church in south-west Nigeria have been detained by a regional security force, the authorities there say. Gunmen stormed the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state, during a service earlier this month and opened fire. The suspects …

Eighteen migrants have died and others were injured when a huge crowd tried to cross into the Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla, officials from neighbouring Morocco say. Reports say some of those who died had fallen from the top of a border fence. Several security personnel and migrants were …

A suspected thief, Omotayo Oni, was arrested for allegedly stealing cables inside the headquarters of Deeper Life Bible Church in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The suspect was arrested by operatives of the Ogun State-owned security outfit, So-Safe Corps during a routine patrol in the axis around …

The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested two suspects for allegedly raping a mentally-ill woman in the Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, in a statement on Friday, June 24, said the suspects, Kwallan John and Imamu Abdurrahman, were arrested last Sunday. …