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A mob of about 50 people beat a foreign national to death Thursday in South Africa's port city of Durban, a flashpoint for anti-migrant sentiment, police said.
A Kenyan court convicted ex-governor Okoth Obado and two former aides of murdering student Sharon Otieno. Sentencing is set for 27 November 2026. The post Kenya’s Obado Awaits Sentence for Murder appeared first on The Rio Times.
In tonight's programme: Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie is convicted of 191 murders, 190 of which were of children. Also, a former Rwandan soldier and outspoken government critic, Robert Kabera, is found decapitated in Uganda. Plus we meet a young Ivorian music lover who travels around the country looking for old-school sounds that need a little TLC.
A self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher and his associates were on Monday found guilty of murdering 191 people, mostly children, in an infamous starvation cult.
Starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 28 others were found guilty of murder by a Kenyan court on Monday over the deaths of 190 children and an adult in one of the world’s worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. The preacher was arrested in 2023 after police received a tip-off, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola Forest near the coast in southeastern Kenya. Prosecutors say Mackenzie and his Good News International Church organised a...
More than 10 people had gone to the hills near Nongshum around 7 a.m. to collect firewood when they were ambushed by the suspected militants, firewood collectors said
Known for raising his voice against the illegal sale of addictive substances at chemist shops, Parvinder Singh Jhota was shot in broad daylight inside a medical store in a busy marketplace in Mansa on October 13
The victim belonged to a family from Kalaburagi that had come to Mysuru during Dasara to sell balloons and toys
Montreal police arrested a 33-year-old man over the murder of Leïla Ben Salem, a Tunisian federal employee killed during a work video call. The post Montreal Police Arrest Ben Salem Suspect appeared first on The Rio Times.
The police recovered the charred remains of the girl from near the Pambla dam in Idukki
The Dominican Republic ordered three men sent to US courts on murder, cocaine and fraud charges, in decrees signed by the vice president. The post Dominican Republic Extradition Order for 3 appeared first on The Rio Times.
South Africa's police stated a murder detection rate of 9.5% against a 60% target, and Parliament's police committee wants to know how it was calculated. The post South Africa Logs 9.5% Murder Detection Rate appeared first on The Rio Times.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, the former Los Angeles gang leader who boasted for years of his involvement in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, only to deny it when he came to trial, was sentenced to a minimum 40 years in prison on Tuesday. The sentence, which will likely see him die in custody, comes three decades after the gunning down of one of the most influential hip hop artists of the late 20th century, and after years of criticism over investigations that went nowhere.
An Indonesian domestic helper in Hong Kong has been remanded in custody after being charged with killing her 93-year-old employer at the weekend. Kharsina, 52, was brought to the Kwun Tong Court on Wednesday to face a count of murder. Police arrested her in the early hours of Monday after her 93-year-old employer was found unresponsive in her flat at Long Yiu House in Kai Tak’s Tak Long Estate on Sunday. Paramedics rushed the elderly woman to hospital after administering emergency treatment at...
Jhota was shot at a chemist shop in Mansa town and rushed to the local civil hospital, where doctors declared he was brought dead
Anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota was murdered in broad daylight on October 13 after confronting the accused, who was running a medical shop, for allegedly selling drugs to an elderly man
A 30-year hunt for justice ends with the sentencing of Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, who has written about Shakur's shooting.
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison over the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
A former gang leader was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Tuesday for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, capping the prosecution of a long-unsolved murder that shaped the golden age of rap music. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, found guilty of first-degree murder in August, received the penalty during a hearing in a Las Vegas courtroom. Until Davis’ 2023 arrest, the killing of Shakur, shot dead in the passenger seat of an SUV driven by...
The sentence marks an end to the mystery around Tupac's cold case, which has intrigued hip-hop fans for nearly 30 years.
For decades, Tupac Shakur’s murder remained unsolved. Now, Keffe D is being sentenced for his killing.
The former father-in-law of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung called her a “birthing machine” and tried to assault her before he allegedly plotted with his two sons to kill her three years ago, a court has heard. Choi’s partner, Chris Tam Fong-chun, recounted on Tuesday a bitter argument between the influencer and her former in-laws in what he said was a watershed moment leading to a breakdown in the relationship in mid-2022. Choi was previously married to Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 31, who...