Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | South Africa’s murder rate increased by 4.9 percent in the last year, official statistics showed Friday, with the police minister admitting the country was struggling with “a prevalent culture of violence”. A total of 18,673 people were killed in the 12 months to March …
Read More »Singer Chris Brown released from jail on $250,000 bail
Washington, United States | AFP | An attorney for Chris Brown said Wednesday that the singer has been released from custody, following a bizarre standoff at his home with police after a woman alleged that he pointed a gun at her. Police arrested Brown on suspicion of assault with a …
Read More »Olympics: No bail for bribe probe Kenya official
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Beleaguered Kenya Olympic athletics official Michael Rotich will spend a month in police custody as investigators gather evidence over allegations he demanded bribes to warn athletes of impeding doping tests. The Sunday Times newspaper and German television channel ARD filmed Rotich allegedly demanding 10,000 pounds …
Read More »Cameroon bank workers accused of massive theft
Douala, CAMEROON | AFP | Four employees of a Cameroon bank have been detained on suspicion of stealing millions of euros, sources told AFP on Tuesday. The four staff members of BICEC, a local subsidiary of French bank BPCE, have been placed in detention in the economic capital Douala after …
Read More »Pistorius hospitalised after ‘fall in prison’
Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius has returned to his prison cell in South Africa’s capital after being treated at hospital for injuries sustained in a fall, prison officials told AFP Sunday. “He had to be detained Saturday afternoon at the hospital after falling off …
Read More »German police say machete attack could be ‘crime of passion’
Berlin, Germany | AFP | German police are working on the assumption that Sunday’s machete attack by a Syrian asylum-seeker that left one woman dead and two people injured in the city of Reutlingen was a “crime of passion”, DPA news agency reported. “When a man and woman have an …
Read More »Kenya jails ivory ‘kingpin’ for 20 years
Mombasa, Kenya | AFP | A Kenyan court sentenced an ivory trafficking “kingpin” to 20 years in jail Friday, a symbolically heavy penalty in a nation where major poachers are rarely punished. Feisal Mohamed Ali, a Kenyan national, must be made an “example (of) for those behind the poaching menace …
Read More »Murder suspect indicted in case which fuelled misogyny fears
Seoul, South Korea | AFP | The suspect in a murder of a young woman in Seoul’s upmarket Gangnam district was indicted Sunday, in a case that triggered a public outcry over fears of violent misogyny in South Korea. Hundreds of mourners attended a candlelight vigil after the 23-year-old victim …
Read More »Dallas robot bomb highlights shift in police technology
Washington, United States | AFP | The “bomb robot” killing of a suspected Dallas shooter may be the first lethal use of an automated device by American police, and underscores the growing role of technology in law enforcement. City police chief David Brown told reporters Friday that officials “saw no …
Read More »Mistaken identity in Dallas: man wrongly IDed as shooter speaks out
Dallas, United States | AFP | As the deadly shooting rampage in Dallas unfolded, one man was surprised amid the chaos to find out police had identified him as a suspected attacker — and his photo was plastered all over the internet. The Dallas Police Department ignited a brief manhunt …
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