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Residents of Inyathi have rallied behind a local farmer whose land has been forcibly seized by a Bulawayo High Court Judge, signing a petition for the farm to be left in peace.
Kenya recorded marginal gains in the fight against corruption but remains firmly anchored at the bottom in the region behind Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, a report released on Wednesday says.
Deolinda Matos, the first of the five accused to testify in the major corruption trial concerning the publicly owned Mozambique Airpoerts Company (ADM), on Tuesday adopted the Nuremburg defence - everything she had done, she claimed, was on the orders of her superiors.
Police are on the spot over the killing of 11 people in Isiolo on Sunday.
The Police in Bushenyi District are holding a 14-year-old girl for allegedly stoning to death a man who attempted to defile her.
The death of Maj Gen James Kazini last week during an alleged domestic dispute was as tragic as it was shockingly sad. Many Ugandans are outraged even as they mourn the death of the plain-spoken general.
A court heard that weapons handed to Kenyan authorities when 17 suspected Somali pirates were brought to the country were in working condition.
Forty-eight people were killed in Kisumu during the post election violence.
The constitution has been identified as the greatest impediment to the fight against graft in a report by a corruption watchdog released Wednesday.
Joseph Pewee, about in his 60s, had an idea in escaping his poverty and taking care of his immediate needs. He would do so by selling his son as many did over a century ago. But then times have changed. He was entrapped by the would be buyer and he is now in police custody.
Lack of planning and corrupt practices by unscrupulous government officials have been blamed for the environmental degradation, infrastructural decay and the deterioration of most towns and cities in the South East geo-political zone.
The Gauteng Department of Education has launched an investigation into the possibility of a breach in security involving the Physical Science matric exam paper at a high school in Soweto.
Member of the House of the Representatives, Mr Terngu Tsegba, narrowly escaped death when unknown gunmen raided bullets on Governor Gabriel Suswam's back-up bullets proof jeep which conveyed him from the governor's home town, Anyiin, in Logo local government area last Sunday.
Heavy clash between the Somali pirates has flared up in Harar - dere town, a stronghold of Somali pirates in the Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
National President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Mohammed Garba has condemned the killings, harassment and intimidation of journalists in the country.
A march against crime and gangsterism in Atlantis led by DA leader Helen Zille, doubled as a rally for the party before tomorrow's by-elections in the ward.
Two domestic workers have been stabbed to death at the home where they worked in Pelican Heights, with their attacker stealing only their cellphones.
A MUFAKOSE man accused of fatally assaulting his wife for allegedly "starving the couple's children" yesterday appeared in court charged with murder.
A 15-YEAR-OLD Battlefields boy was recently clobbered to death with a knobkerrie in the head in a dispute with his friend over a burst condom they were playing with as a balloon.
HARARE Municipal Police have downed tools in protest over management's "indifference" towards their colleague who was arrested on allegations of killing a vendor last week.
Three Chiweshe men will each spend five years in prison for stealing shelled maize from their employer.
A taxi driver here was last Saturday night robbed of his Datsun 1200, R250 cash and a cellphone by two unknown assailants who tried to strangle him near the Limpopo River.
The 2009 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) just released by Transparency International, ranks Tunisia 65 th worldwide out of 180 countries and territories in terms of public sector transparency.
An unidentified middle-aged man who is suspected to be a member of a gang which specializes in the vandalism of PHCN installation has been electrocuted to death.
Investigation into corruption claims within the Dokolo's education department will go on in spite of the opposition from the LC5 chief, the Resident District Commissioner has said.
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