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Israel’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

Policing receives the most complaints regarding corruption

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

High-risk areas are concentrated in townships and informal settlements, including Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Philippi and Gugulethu.

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

Place of mourning: The home where environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was killed while children played outside. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

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

July 1994 Kigali: Then Rwandan vice-president Paul Kagame, the Tutsi-led RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) commander.         (Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)
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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.

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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 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 it is our duty to continue this struggle. (Oupa Nkosi)

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…

School massacre: Eleven-year-old Victory Camibon, who had just started high school, was shot dead in an attack last month

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

Members of the Oromo Ethiopian community in Lebanon take part in a demonstration to protest the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa, in the capital Beirut on July 5 2020. Hundessa was shot and killed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on June 29, 2020. His death has sparked ongoing protests around the world. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

‘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

Burundi’s president was a cruel and tyrannical leader under whom no one was safe, not even schoolchildren.

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

Enough: Protesters may be making their despair known, but politically motivated murders have anything but slowed in the province, prompting the ANC to call for a task team to stop the killings. (Mlungisi Mbele)

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

The truth is that criminals are known to the locals and police rely on evidence to effect arrests and ensure that suspects end up in jail, says the author. (David Harrison/M&G)

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

Thy will be done: About 300 women church-goers gathered in Soweto last week to arm themselves with prayer against those who kill women and children.

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.

Nigeria’s religious divide in spotlight after riots

Nigeria’s religious fault line was in the spotlight on Tuesday after riots in the central city of Jos claimed hundreds of lives.