When justice is under siege

The rate at which people are taking the law into their own hands by killing suspected criminals is cause for grave concern. This has put the Police Force and the judicial system in the spotlight in that they reflect a general loss of trust in the two institutions in areas where violent crime is prevalent.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Mail &Amp; Guardian Online

05 Jun

Tanzania's elephants under siege

Mail & Guardian Online
Tanzania's elephants under siege
Mail & Guardian Online
Tanzania has emerged as the epicentre of Africa's elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in just five years. The results will pile pressure on a government that has been heavily criticised for ...
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9 years ago

BBC

21 Nov

Mali hotel siege over, US says

An attack by suspected Islamist militants who took 170 people hostage at a hotel in the Malian capital is over, US officials say.

 

10 years ago

BBC

18 Jul

Nairobi mall reopens after siege

The Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where al-Shabab militants killed 67 people in September 2013, opens its doors again.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: 'A country under siege from Ebola'

Alexander Kumar, Theresa Jones, and John Wright are British volunteers working in Liberia and Sierra Leone with people affected by Ebola and they have created a video diary.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Feb

Banks under siege from ATM hackers

>Local banks are among the victims of the largest global heist in which financial institutions lost an estimated $1 billion after hackers--mainly from Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia and China--broke into the banks’ network between 2013 and 2014.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Algeria siege inquest to begin

An inquest into the deaths of six Britons and a UK-based Colombian killed when militants seized an Algerian gas plant last year is set to begin.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Somali militants attack siege town

At least two international peacekeepers are killed in an Islamist militant attack on a town in central Somalia which has been under siege since March.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Somalia ends al-Shabab hotel siege

At least 14 are killed as Somali special forces end the siege of a Mogadishu hotel by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab

 

11 years ago

BBC

Westgate siege suspects refused bail

A Kenyan court denies bail to four men accused of aiding the gunmen who carried out the Westgate shopping centre attack, in which 67 people died

 

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