A year after Tanzania's bloody election, many remain traumatised by the violence, while government critics live in fear of abduction and arbitrary arrest, or facing treason and terrorism charges.
READ MOREA senior opposition official in Tanzania is facing the death penalty after being charged with treason. John Pambalu is a member of Chadema national council and a former leader of the party’s youth wing.
In a statement, Madagascar’s Anti-Corruption Unit (PAC) said it had received complaints targeting several former officials, including ex-president Andry Rajoelina. The proceedings have been temporarily suspended as it first has to be determined whether the court has jurisdiction to hear the cases.
Police are looking into reports a vehicle was involved in a collision with two others and left the scene.
Police are appealing to the public to return the violin to its rightful owner.
The notorious murderer was left cowering under his bed, jurors were told.
The bride was shot dead by the four masked gunmen.
French police are investigating after Disneyland Paris was booked for a bizarre mock wedding involving a 22-year-old man and a girl of nine.
An awaiting trial prisoner has been rearrested in Limpopo after about three months on the run.
During a case management meeting for the Cradock Four inquest in May, several interested parties allegedly told the National Prosecuting Authority that they considered apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock to be a person of interest.
While police were not yet able to confirm that there had been a ransom demand in the kidnapping of a Gqeberha woman, a security company that was first at the scene following the abduction reports that such a demand had been made.
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) has made a breakthrough, securing arrests in the murder of one of its own nearly two years after the killing.
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg has dismissed the appeal of Nhlanhla Hendry Tshabalala, a traffic officer convicted of three counts of attempted murder.
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