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Medico-criminal forensic entomology has demonstrated its significance in strengthening criminal cases over the past three decades
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR MEDICOLEGAL SERVICES

Word of the flies: How bugs provide crime clues

And how forensic entomology has evolved in South Africa

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
Ukrainian forensic experts describe the bodies of dead Russian soldiers, who died in settlements north of Kharkiv. ( (Photo by Ivan Chernichkin/Zaborona/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR MEDICOLEGAL SERVICES

Forensics the key to missing and dead on old and new battlefields

The fledgling Red Cross Military Identification Programme aims to collaborate with non-state and state military groups to establish DNA profiling of combatants before deployment

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read