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latest news & developmentsIsrael’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions
The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist
Police pursuing ‘specific lead’ in Khayelitsha triple murder
Suspects still at large following the execution-style killing of three women aged 17, 20 and 21
Triple murder in Khayelitsha investigated by police
Three young women have been shot dead execution-style in one of Cape Town’s gang-riddled communities
Record number of land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2020
In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed
Exclusive: Top-secret testimonies implicate Rwanda’s president in war crimes
Explosive witness testimony from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda implicates Paul Kagame and the RPF in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 genocide.
Did Botswana execute ‘poachers’ ?
The Botswana Defence Force’s anti-poaching unit has long been accused of a ‘shoot to kill’ policy. Over 20 years the unit has killed 30 Namibians and 22 Zimbabweans
The world’s warriors are under attack, but we must keep on fighting
The murder of Fikile Ntshangase in KwaZulu-Natal was not an isolated incident. Around the globe, from Nigeria to Brazil, environmental activists are similarly being silenced, and…
Conflict in Cameroon: The schools caught in crossfire
A slew of recent attacks in the country means sending your child to school can be a life or death decision
‘My son died the worst kind of death’: Horrific details of violent unrest in Ethiopia
Eyewitness accounts emerge of the violence that left 239 people dead after the assassination of singer Hachalu Hundessa
Remembering the cruelty of strongman Nkurunziza and his regime
Burundi’s president was a cruel and tyrannical leader under whom no one was safe, not even schoolchildren
Four mowed down as KZN killing spree rages
The killings have sparked a call from the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal to the interministerial task team probing political assassinations
People must be able to trust the police
The Victims of Crime Survey for 2015-2016, released by Statistics South Africa, shows that South Africans are generally reluctant to report crime
Mothers pit prayer against killings
‘We’ve come to pray in this park because this is where the bodies of our children are always dumped, in the veld’
Special police task force to probe political killings, says police minister
While the death toll for politicians is increasing ahead of the local government elections, Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko pledges to intervene.
Sentencing looms in US soldier’s courts-martial
A US Army master sergeant convicted of murder in the 2007 killings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqis will be sentenced on Thursday.