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Over US$72 000 went missing from the US$1, 5 million a Mozambican businessman allegedly tried to smuggle through the Harare International Airport to Dubai last month, the defence lawyer of the accused has claimed.
The Beitbridge Rural District Council is working on measures to curb rampant poaching of wildlife and natural resources in the district, an official has said.
Companies and individuals should be wary of break-ins and robberies before, during and after the festive season, police have warned.
AN Epworth woman and her daughter are on the run after a botched backyard abortion that resulted in the death of a city woman and the subsequent illegal burial of her corpse in a shallow grave last week.
A Harare man who allegedly raped a 24-year-old woman he had promised to secure overnight accommodation, last Friday appeared before a Harare magistrate facing rape charges.
PUBLIC sector corruption in Uganda continues to worsen according to Transparency International. Corruption is now seen by Ugandans to be more rampant than it was in any of the past five years.
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma this week ordered his Cabinet to come up with a plan to combat corruption, a notion that is both laudable and somewhat ironic.
A KEETMANSHOOP businessman has fallen victim to a new internet banking scam.
A combined team of police, the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) and the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) officers has arrested four people in connection with the fraudulent award of contracts to hold Government workshops at the infamous Best Home Lodge in Lusaka.
THIRTY-EIGHT prisoners from various prisons on the Copperbelt yesterday walked to freedom when the national parole board cut down their prison sentences.
The Rwanda National Police yesterday held a roundtable meeting with its development partners aimed at gathering input to their five-year strategic plan and seeking support.
The government has been at the forefront in the fight against corruption and related vices. So it beats reason when some government officials throw the spanner in the works and help fan it- inadvertently perhaps.
Police in Kabarole sector, Gatsibo District are holding six men in connection with the recent murder of a local pastoralist.
Harare City Council has set its parking enforcement teams revenue targets for fines from clamping and boasts that it made US$76 582 in the seven days from November 10 to 17 by clamping 585 vehicles and towing 184, well above the targeted US$60 000.
Police have arrested a man believed to be part of the gang that robbed, assaulted and took turns to rape a woman who was accompanying her boyfriend to a bus stop in New Marimba, Harare recently.
A SUSPECTED cattle rustler in Goromonzi committed suicide by hanging himself after he seriously assaulted a policeman, who had tried to arrest him and left him for dead on Thursday afternoon.
AS preparations for the 2009/10 farming season gather momentum, con artists have offloaded uncertified maize seed onto the market and unsuspecting farmers are buying it at a cheaper price than certified and tested seed.
POLICE yesterday said they have geared themselves up to ensure that the festive season would be accident and crime free countrywide.
Three women kidnapped an 18-year-old man in Chitungwiza and forced him to be intimate with one of them at a cathedral in Harare's city centre on Tuesday, police have confirmed.
FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has described as frightening the high rate of violent crimes in the country, advocating the creation of state police to complement efforts of federal police.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday ordered the police to arrest former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and detain him in their custody.
Confidential U.S. government documents uncovered by campaign group Global Witness and reported on in today's New York Times, strongly suggest that Teodorin Obiang, son of the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, purchased a $33 million private jet, a $35 million Malibu mansion, speedboats and a fleet of fast cars using corruptly acquired funds.
UNMIL boss Ellen Løj, honouring Indian peacekeepers, have warned members of UN mission here against sexual exploitation.
ZIMBABWE recorded the biggest jump of the 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International (IT) this year being ranked as the 34th most corrupt nation from the number 14 it was positioned last year, indicating a slight lessening of corruption. TI said Zimbabwe was still ranked in a worrying position due to the breakdown of formal procedures and structures at most institutions that are ...
In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served.
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