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RESEARCH by the South African Institute of Race Relations shows that while attacks on police personnel were down 15% between 2001 and last year, the number of people who had died as a result of police action had increased 32%.
THE South Gauteng High Court is expected to hear the testimony of former Hyundai boss Billy Rautenbach, who allegedly paid convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti 100000 to get the assistance of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi.
Six people suspected to be involved in a kidnapping syndicate have been arrested.
Most Ugandans need simply scan the front page of a newspaper in order to see the effects of corruption first-hand. From the venality of the CHOGM saga to the myriad stories of witch doctors defrauding gullible clients, corruption is never out of the headlines for long.
The Independent talked to Mrs Juliet Akankwasa and below are excerpts.
In the last three weeks, the suspended Executive Director of National Forestry Authority (NFA) Damian Akankwasa has been in the spotlight over Shs 900m that he says was stolen from his house in Naguru by his estranged wife Juliet Akankwasa. He told The Independent's Ariel Rubin and John Njoroge how he lost the money, and why it was in the house.
At least 28,000 young people have been trained annually in the 34 professional basic training centres of Luanda Provincial Government (GPL), located in nine districts of the province.
Police in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are detaining a man in his sixties for attempting to sell one of his six children for US$2,000 (Sh148,000) in a bid to "overcome hardship".
A medical doctor in Wakiso District, who attempted to tap into the mystical powers of a witchdoctor to resolve a personal problem has suffered a loss of Shs7 million which the witchdoctor allegedly conned of him.
Irate residents of Natteta Village in Nazigo Sub-county, Kayunga District yesterday beheaded a resident they suspected to have stolen a chicken.
Fourteen people, including a journalist, were yesterday committed to the High Court for trial on treason charges.
Mozambique's former Transport Minister, Antonio Munguambe, on Wednesday admitted that he had requested a large loan from the publicly owned airports company, ADM, to pay school fees for his children studying in South Africa.
THE Adekunle Ajasin Foundation, established ten years ago to immortalize the former civilian governor of Ondo State, yesterday, said it was collaborating with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offence Commission (ICPC) to come out with a code of conduct for politicians in the country.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office there told the Security Council today.
Takavarasha Mharara is demanding compensation of over P50, 000 for the truck he pawned last year when he was desperately looking for P30,000. Justice Abednico Tafa is presiding over the case. The owner of the pawn shop, Ilan Zilberman, told the court that after inspecting the truck, which had minor mechanical problems, he agreed to lend Takavarasha P25,000 in July last year. He said that they ...
Big names, including two opposition chiefs, have been listed in the state-owned Daily News for failure to pay rates to Selebi-Phikwe Town Council.
Transparency International (TI) has just released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) at a ceremony in Berlin. This Office is pleased to announce that, for the 14th year in a row, Botswana was ranked as being the least corrupt country in Africa, as well as among the least corrupt countries in the world.
The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) and Judiciary should shoulder the blame for Tanzania's sharp drop in the global corruption rankings, politicians and activists said yesterday.
The criminal trial involving the state and one Sara Camara, who is accused of robbing and raping an American Peace Corp volunteer resumed on Monday November 16, 2009 before Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul.
Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul has urged Defence Counsel S. Jaharteh to consult the Malian Consul in Banjul so as to communicate with the family of one Amadou Jarra, a homicide suspect standing trial on two counts of murder.
Babucarr Korita, a resident of Brikama, and a member of the National Drug Enforcement Agency attached to the Old Yundum police Station, on Tuesday testified, in a criminal case involving one Buba Singhateh and eleven others, who are facing trial on two counts of assault and breach of the peace before Magistrate Olajubutu Kayode of the Bundung Magistrates Court.
The criminal case involving the state and one Sarjo Saho commenced on Monday November 16, 2009 before Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul.
The robbery trial involving two accused persons, Modou Sanneh and Ebou Cham, resumed on Monday, November 16, 2009 before Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul.
Babucarr Drammeh, a resident of Bakoteh, who is facing charges of stealing, on Tuesday opened his defence before Magistrate Olajubutu Kayode of the Bundung Magistrates Court.
Law enforcement agencies seat idly as CÅ"ur Joyeux steals money from hundreds of helpless orphans
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