New York, US (PANA) - UN Member States have finalised a new treaty targeting cybercrime, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported on Friday Full text...
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South Africa: South African police arrest suspected kidnappers
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African police have rescued a businessman and arrested eight kidnappers, including three Tanzanian nationals in Johannesburg Full text...
Suspected Chinese human traffickers appear in court in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The trial of seven Chinese nationals charged with human trafficking and child labour offences has been postponed because two defence witnesses failed to attend proceedings in the Gauteng Division of the High Court Full text...
Surge in kidnapping for ransom cases reported in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – At least 20 Portuguese butchery owners and staff have been kidnapped in South Africa’s Gauteng province over the past 18 months Full text...
Criminal complaint laid against South Africa's new Sports Minister
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A criminal complaint has been made against newly appointed Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie for “incitement of xenophobic violence, hate speech and intimidation” Full text...
ICC Prosecutor appeals for evidence of Darfur atrocities
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a campaign on Tuesday to address the unfolding crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, amid the going war between rival military forces that erupted last April Full text...
South Africa: suspects arrested following airport security scare
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Two passengers have been arrested for allegedly making a bomb threat on board a passenger airline at Cape Town International Airport on Thursday night Full text...
ICC Prosecutor outlines roadmap to complete Libya war crimes probe
New York, US (PANA) - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced at the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the investigative stage of the legal proceedings into alleged war crimes in Libya is expected to conclude by the end of 2025, transitioning into the judicial stage Full text...
Drug trafficking undermining stability and development in Sahel region: UN drug agency
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Drug trafficking in the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and the Niger – continues to hinder security, economic development and the rule of law while jeopardizing public health, said a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Full text...
30 years on, justice for genocide crimes in Rwanda more urgent than ever, says rights group
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - As the 30th commemoration begins this Sunday, 7 April of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, including Hutu and others who opposed the genocide and the extremist government that orchestrated it, Amnesty International is calling on the international community to urgently renew its commitment to ensure justice and accountability for the victims and the survivors Full text...
Disgraced South African businessman Marcus Jooste commits suicide
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The mastermind of South Africa’s biggest ever fraud case, former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste, committed suicide in Hermanus, outside Cape Town, on Thursday Full text...
ICC pursues slavery crimes
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - Forced marriages, human trafficking, conscription of child soldiers and forced labour will form part of crimes to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, once policy reviews on these crimes are complete, The Hague-based court said on Tuesday Full text...
South African child repatriated from Senegal
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African authorities have repatriated a two-year-old baby from a prison in Dakar, Senegal Full text...
UN crime prevention chief pledges enhanced cooperation in Somalia
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada Waly has highlighted the threats of transnational organized crime, terrorism and corruption that is plaguing Somalia Full text...
Israel-Gaza crisis: All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - All parties to the Gaza conflict have been responsible for “clear violations of international humanitarian law including possible war crimes”, according to the UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk Full text...
American tourists sue Google over Cape Town attack
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – An American couple is suing Google after they were attacked last year in a Cape Town township while following directions on Google Maps Full text...
US offers $5 million for information on arrest of former Sudan minister Harum
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Department of State is designating Sudan’s former Minister of State for the Interior under the Omar al Bashir regime, Ahmad Mohammad Harun, under the War Crimes Rewards Programme with an offer of $5 million for information for his arrest Full text...
World confronts an ‘ugly and inescapable truth’ in Darfur, says ICC Prosecutor
New York, US (PANA) - The international community’s failure to execute warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and subsequent lack of accountability are fuelling the violence stemming from the war between rival militaries in Sudan, ICC Prosecutor told the UN Security Council on Monday Full text...
Sudan conflict: UN rights experts begin war crimes probe
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have begun their work to investigate grave allegations of crimes in Sudan, where nine months of fighting between rival military forces have left thousands dead and millions displaced Full text...
Gambian ex-minister Sonko faces crimes against humanity charges
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The trial of former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko will open 8 January in Switzerland for serious crimes committed in The Gambia Full text...
Former South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius released from prison
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former Paralympian hero Oscar Pistorius was released on parole from Pretoria's Atteridgeville Correctional Centre on Friday after serving eight years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp Full text...
Oscar Pistorius to be released from prison on Friday
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius will be released from an Eastern Cape prison on Friday, 11 years after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp Full text...
Sudan Conflict: Sudan Rejects US Accusations Against National Army
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Thursday was critical of the US administration which accused both Sudanese national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force RSF of committing war crimes in their fighting since April this year Full text...
Global cooperation critical to combat transnational organised crime
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General called for stronger action to fight the growing challenge of transnational organized crime in an address to the Security Council on Thursday Full text...
Financial crimes hurt economies - must be better understood and curbed: IMF Blog By Carolina Claver, Chady El Khoury, and Rhoda Weeks-Brown
Washington DC, United States (PANA) - The fight against financial crime isn’t lost, but the world needs to do more to limit the economic impact of crime Full text...
Raising South Africa's economic prospects by curbing crime: WB report
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - The impact of crime on South Africa’s economic prospects is high and broad-based, according to a World Bank report released Wednesday Full text...
Libyan parliament passes law criminalising relations with Israel
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan House of Representatives sitting in Benghazi in the east has passed a bill criminalising the normalisation of relations with Israel Full text...
Man jailed for stealing Mandela's prized boxing belt
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Soweto man who stole Nelson Mandela's Sugar Ray Leonard boxing belt has been jailed for 10 years Full text...
South African, UK tourists, tour guide killed in Ugandan national park
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Three people, a South African and UK tourists and a Ugandan tour guide, were killed when when assailants attacked their vehicle near a national park in south-west Uganda on Monday Full text...
South Africa: Palestinian national assassinated in Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Police have confirmed that a prominent Palestinian businessman was shot and killed in Cape Town on Wednesday Full text...
South African murder suspect detained in Lesotho
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African authorities are seeking the extradition of a murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Maketoane, who fled to Lesotho on Friday Full text...
Security Council urged to address ‘most silenced and least condemned crime’
New York, US (PANA) - The international community must act now to protect future generations from the scourge of conflict-related sexual violence, the UN’s advocate on the issue, Pramila Patten, told the Security Council on Friday Full text...
Suspect accused of torching South Africa's Parliament confesses in court
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The man accused of causing millions of dollars of damage by setting fire to South Africa’s Parliament on Thursday confessed to the crime Full text...
Trucks torched on second anniversary of former South African Zuma's arrest
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions are running high in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces after several trucks were torched over the weekend Full text...
Rwandan genocide suspect seeks asylum in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Rwandan genocide-accused Fulgence Kayishema will apply for asylum in South Africa, his lawyer told the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Tuesday Full text...
Leadimg Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Fulgence Kayishema, one of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives, has been arrested in Paarl, near Cape Town Full text...
Swiss prosecutors charge former Gambian minister with crimes against humanity
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Swiss prosecutors have charged a former interior minister of The Gambia with crimes against humanity for his alleged role in years of repression by the West African country’s security forces against opponents of its long-time dictator Full text...
South Africa: Worshippers call for abducted South African's safe return
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Thousands of worshippers on Saturday night gathered at Pelican Park, Cape Town, to call for the release of kidnapped South African Gerco van Deventer Full text...
Organised crime infecting African and global supply chain
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Africa’s fishing and cocoa industries are good examples of how multinational logistics systems present opportunities for exploitation by insiders, criminal networks and corrupt government officials, according to an international research report published on Tuesday Full text...
South Africa: Leading South African rapper shot dead
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A major manhunt is underway following the killing of leading South African rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes in Durban on Friday night Full text...
Killer of several people in Mali arrested in August 2021 confesses to his crimes
Bamako, Mali (PANA) -Aldjouma Touré, killer of eleven people, including one in Bamako and ten others in the town of Fana, 120 km from Bamako, arrested since August 2021 by the Malian police, has finally confessed to his crimes, PANA learned from a reliable source Full text...
South Africans outraged at murder of eSwatini lawyer
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African legal analysts have condemned the murder of prominent eSwatini human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko on Saturday Full text...
Top UN body asks what more can be done to stop genocide, atrocity crimes
New York, US (PANA) - Ambassadors, UN officials and experts from the international community on Tuesday shared ways to better prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York Full text...
International cyber security conference continues in Benghazi, Libya
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The work of the international conference on cybersecurity continued on Sunday in the Libyan city of Benghazi, on the theme "National Security and Cyber-Security Threats in a Changing World" Full text...
South African soldiers linked to Mozambican atrocities
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A video showing South African soldiers throwing bodies onto a burning pile of rubbish in Mozambique has sparked an outcry and calls for a full investigation into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Full text...
South Africa: Investigation into anti-Apartheid activist reopened
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Forty-five years after the murder of liberation hero Rick Turner, fresh evidence has given his family new hope that the truth about who killed him in January 1978 will finally be uncovered
Evidence presented by a former Security Branch operative during the re-opened inquest into the death of anti-Apartheid activist Hoosen Haffejee in detention the previous year has resulted in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) opening a new investigation Full text...
Gambia prosecutors charge 2 civilians, policeman with treason
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian police prosecutors have charged two civilians and a policeman with treason and concealment of treason for their alleged participation in a coup plot against President Adama Barrow Full text...
Rights advocate accuses armed group of Haftar's sin of war crimes
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, says "an unrelenting crisis of impunity in Libya" has enabled fighters of the Tariq Ben Zeyad (TBZ) armed group to commit war crimes, and other crimes under international law, with the aim of crushing any challenge to the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) of Khalifa Haftar, the de facto authorities controlling vast swathes of the divided country Full text...
South Africa's President Ramaphosa orders Zuma to withdraw criminal case
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has served former President Jacob Zuma with legal papers, ordering him to withdraw his private prosecution by Monday Full text...
Former South African President Zuma launches criminal case against President Ramaphosa
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former President Jacob Zuma on Thursday night launched a private criminal prosecution against President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing him of being accessory after the fact to crimes committed by Advocate Billy Downer, the chief prosecutor in the multi-million dollar graft case against him (Zuma) Full text...