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Four police officers have been arrested in connection with the killing of Mthokozisi Ntumba, the man who was shot dead amid protesting by Wits students last week.
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
Two police constables who were charged in relation to the alleged beating of a man in west Kingston in 2019 are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on March 2. Constables Tevin Lake and Kenroy Chambers are facing a charge of...
Now that we’re well into the festive season and just a few days away from Christmas, holiday traffic has increased, especially in Gauteng.
Starting Monday, the City of Detroit will begin scheduling 20,000 COVID vaccination appointments at the TCF center over the next four weeks, based on anticipated supply of vaccines from the state during that time Mayor Mike Duggan announced today. Those vaccines will be available to Detroiters over the age of 75. Any “good neighbor” driver … Continued
The post Mayor Announces Major Expansion Of COVID Vaccine appeared first on The Michigan Chronicle.
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2020: The issue of “land grab” is not a new phenomenon to many Sierra Leoneans, especially to those with first-hand experience as victims in this dark art. This is predominantly so in the urban areas. In fact, land grabbing has been around since King Nemgbana (Naimbana) of Koya…
[Swazi Media] Police in Swaziland (eSwatini) blocked a march for democracy and arrested leaders, torturing at least one of them, according to reports.
Cameroon's army said on Monday it had arrested several soldiers and police for torturing a suspected \"terrorist\" in the country's conflict-scarred anglophone region.
[Nation] Rogue police - Every morning, Maina Mwangi reports, three to five police officers on the Thika Superhighway service lane at Rexol Petrol Station, before the Kimbo underpass, flag down matatus and collect bribes. Another two at the railway crossing on the Kimbo-Matangi road target tuk-tuks. \"They are soiling the image of those doing a good job controlling traffic.\" His contact mmainam@gmail.com.
If Democrats fail to grow our economy and jobs, they will lose the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, in 2022.
As his lawyer was absent from court on Monday for the commencement of trial, High Court Judge Navindra Singh threw out the $80.5 million civil suit brought by Colwyn Harding who back in 2013 had alleged that police officers had raped him by inserting a baton into his rectum.
The article Civil suit brought by Colwyn Harding against cops thrown out for want of prosecution appeared first on Stabroek News.
A Wisconsin prosecutor announced that he will not file criminal charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha last summer, leaving him paralyzed and setting off sometimes violent protests in the city. Officer Rusten Sheskey's shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, captured on bystander video, turned […]
The post No charges against Wisconsin officer who shot Jacob Blake appeared first on DefenderNetwork.com.
The little girl seemed traumatized even before the police officers handcuffed her, threw her into the back seat of a squad car and attacked her with pepper spray. When we first saw the child on videotape, police officers were chasing her down a snow-covered block near her Rochester, New York, home. Surely, they would catch […]
The post Pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl should never be an option appeared first on Florida Courier.
[Monitor] The Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party candidate for Bubulo West MP in Manafwa district has asked Police to return the hand hoes confiscated from his home last week.
The SAPS Margate Margate Drug Task Team swooped on two alleged drug dealers who were found to be in possession of heroin at a local taxi rank.
District residents may have fewer police officers in their neighborhoods and could experience delays in public transportation in the days leading up to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, but public agency leaders said Friday a safe environment has become the priority since the a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
I have a new life goal: die before I do something so horrible it becomes the first sentence of my obituary. Unfortunately, former Los Angeles Councilman Mitch Englander’s lead paragraph is now etched in stone. Englander was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for obstructing a public corruption investigation, during which it was revealed […]
[Vanguard] Kano -- Ahead of the Saturday local government election in the State, the Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Thursday says it has deployed over 10,000 personnel to ensure hitch-free conduct of the elections.
[Nation] It's a full-blown scramble for Coast with calls for unity of the region ironically giving rise to divisions among leaders allied to Deputy President William Ruto and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga, both within and outside their political formations.
Northern Cape police closed down the shebeen of a \"kingpin\" when they bust him allegedly dealing in liquor illegally.
[Monitor] National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has endorsed National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate for Koboko MP seat, Mr Charles Ayume.
The City of Cape Town is off to the Western Cape High Court where it will seek an interdict to prevent police from further \"unlawful interference\" in film shoots in the city.
Authorities Wednesday circulated photos of two men accused of shooting at a sheriff’s deputy in Altadena. The ambush occurred Friday about 12:35 p.m., while the deputy was driving a marked patrol vehicle northbound on Fair Oaks Avenue, near Calaveras Street, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The deputy was not injured in the […]
Experts were not surprised that officers were part of the mob, given the ties between some police and white supremacist groups in recent years
