A four-year-old boy, Shoveling Junior Moleme, has gone missing in Mase village in Taung, North West police said on Saturday. “The child was last seen on Thursday at about 12:00 while he was playing with other kids not far from the outskirts of the village,” said spokesperson Seargent Tryphosa van …
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A journalist working with Kenya’s state broadcaster was shot dead at her home in the outcasts of the capital Nairobi. Two gunmen entered Betty Barasa’s home as she was driving in from work on Wednesday evening. They ordered her husband and children to lie on the ground and one of the gunmen …
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