Tag: killings
Gambia: International inquiry needed to bring justice to murdered 44 Ghanaian migrants
Eleven Human Rights Institutions are calling for an international investigation into the massacre of the more than 50 Ghanaian and other West African migrants...
Zimbabwe rejects U.S. extrajudicial killings claims
The Zimbabwe government on Thursday said it objects to the assertion by the United States that its security forces engaged in acts of...
Tanzania warns refugees against involvement in criminal acts
Tanzanian authorities on Monday warned refugees against involvement in criminal acts, including armed robbery, hijacking of vehicles and killings.
"You cannot be...
Ethiopia arrests senior police official in connection with killings of government officials
Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state on Monday announced they have arrested a senior police official in connection with the killings of government...
Amnesty tasks Malagasy authorities to end torture and killings by security forces
Amnesty International has challenged Malagasy authorities to take decisive steps to end the entrenched culture of impunity for killings, torture and other ill-treatment...
Religious Organisations charged to lead the crusade against killings
Very Reverend (Rev.) Father Samael Eding Parddy, the newly installed Dean of the Koforidua St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral has called on religious bodies in...
15 Ethiopians nabbed over government officials killings
Ethiopia announced on Monday it has arrested 15 individuals accused of carrying out assassinations of local government officials.
In a press...
CBCN Calls For Massive Protest In Nigeria Over Persistent Killings As Church Plans To...
The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has called on all its members nationwide to brace up for the mother of all protests, this...
Killings: ESOCS Church protest against killings, bloodshed across Nigeria
Members of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim (ESOCS), Yewa Provincial Headquarters, Ilaro, Ogun State today stage a protest against killings...
Nnamdi Kanu reacts to Nkpor killings
We members of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu find it laughable and unwise for...
UNHCR condemns attack on staff in Central African Republic
UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic addressed the public at a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva over the recent attack on staff...
Ghanaians Honour Memories Of 3 Ex-Servicemen
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday joined servicemen and scores of Ghanaians to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the shooting that led to...
Senseless Deaths On Our Roads Must End – Christian Council
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) on Friday called on the Motor Traffic and Transport Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service to tighten...
Killing Women Is Unfortunate And Unacceptable – FOSDA
The Foundation for Security and Development (FOSDA) has expressed concern about the high number of women and children killed in the recent Bimbilla renewed...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Debate On Criminal Justice Reform
Donald Trump has presented himself as the "law and order" candidate, aiming to end the problems of crime and drug abuse with unalloyed support...
Malawian president drafts new law to deal with Albino killers
Muntharika announced this at a development rally held in the former Malawi capital, Zomba.
The president's announcement follows a series of abductions...
Women Group Wants FG To Probe Governor Wike Over Killings In Rivers Rerun
The group also want the Federal Government to launch investigation into the abduction and the eventual killing of an army Colonel, Samaila Inusa in...
The Operations Of Jihadists Must Be Stopped
Since the establishment of al-Qaeda group by late Osama bin laden who lived from 1957–2011, his jihadist organization (under different names) has been taking...
Rawlings Is Taking Ghana Back To Those Barbaric Years – Amnesty
Amnesty International has expressed its rejection at calls made by former President Jerry John Rawlings advocating capital punishment for convicted killers in Ghana.
Former President...
Sekyere Central Police Command Needs Vehicles
Speaking to the District Commander, ASP Charles Attuah, He explained, the police is always ready to fight crimes, robberies and protect lives and properties,...
Fulanis Killed 11 People At Agogo In Two Years
The last killing occurred as recent as January 11, this year.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Kofi Boakye, the Ashanti Regional Commander, told a media...
Mexican Judge Passes 520-year Punishments for Bar Killings
Photos of 10 of the 13 victims were posted in newspapers during the investigations
Their victims were kidnapped from a bar called Heaven not...
Mysterious killings on the increase in Kenya
Last December, an Al Jazeera network investigation examined shocking claims that the government of Kenya has been running secret police death squads, tasked with...
5 persons in police grips for murdering 2 in Salaga
Five persons have been arrested by the Salaga police in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region for their alleged roles in the...
Long Three Years After Baragoi killings Starts the Hearing
Samuel Letipilia was the first prosecution witness in the trial of seven local leaders, including a ward representative and four chiefs from the Turkana...
RPP condemn killings of Rwandan refugees
John V Karuranga, President of Rwanda People?s Party
On 25 March 2015, soldiers who had disarmed and were living with their families under the protection...
Kenya rejects al-Shabab police killings claim
Joseph Ole Lenku, Kenyan Interior Minister
Kenya has rejected claims by the Somalia-based al-Shabab group that it ambushed and killed more than 25 Kenyan...
Human Rights Abuses In Nigeria.
By Peter Hassan Tijani
Someone would say all I want is justice and not peace. Peace without justice is nothing but Human rights abuses and...
11 Edo State officials arrested by Police in connection with cult-related killings
No fewer than 11 officials of the Edo State government were among the 56 persons arrested by the Police in connection with cult-related killings...
Eastern DRC demonstrate against Ugandan rebels on killings
Hundreds of people protested in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a machete attack by suspected Ugandan rebels in...