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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Border Management Authority (BMA) on Tuesday said it had intercepted an unidentified German national who has been on Interpol’s most wanted list. The arrest occurred during a routine border operation conducted at OR Tambo International Airport over the weekend. The Commissioner of the Border [...]
©- - 19 november 2024 - 15:10:25 - thread Society (266 words)


Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Marking the inaugural International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organised Crime on Friday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has called for unified global efforts to counter these pervasive threats.Proclaimed by the General Assembly in March 2024, [...]
©- - 15 november 2024 - 06:37:32 - thread Society (633 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Police on Tuesday confirmed that a female South African drug trafficker was arrested in Addis Ababa following a joint operation between authorities in the two countries. A team from Gauteng counter narcotics covert intelligence flagged a 29-year-old South African woman through Interpol on suspicion [...]
©- - 15 october 2024 - 07:42:00 - thread Society (237 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A large contingent of police officers has been deployed to the Eastern Cape province after six people were shot dead and four others injured at the Lugongozo High School, near Qumbu, on Sunday night.A group of at least eight men, who were armed with [...]
©- - 08 october 2024 - 10:19:49 - thread Society (228 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –South African  Police have confirmed that 25 suspects are in custody following this weekend’s mass shooting in the Eastern Cape which left 18 people dead.The massacre occurred at the Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki on Sawhen where mourners were preparing for a traditional ceremony for two [...]
©- - 01 october 2024 - 10:17:27 - thread Society (253 words)


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.After three years of work, the committee established by the UN General Assembly to negotiate the convention agreed on a draft text on Thursday.The draft [...]
©- - 10 august 2024 - 05:25:52 - thread Society (266 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African police have rescued a businessman and arrested eight kidnappers, including three Tanzanian nationals in Johannesburg.The businessman was kidnapped on 5 July 2024 at a mosque in Roodepoort. He was rescued at a house in Lenasia last week.The SAPS anti- kidnapping task team has [...]
©- - 05 august 2024 - 17:06:05 - thread Society (204 words)


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. Counsel representing the accused, Jan Kruger, told the court that one of [...]
©- - 05 july 2024 - 11:01:59 - thread Society (213 words)


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. Within the space of 72 hours last week, three butchery owners were kidnapped. Only one of the men has been rescued so far. Police [...]
©- - 03 july 2024 - 09:17:22 - thread Society (294 words)


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”. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced that the leader of the Patriotic Alliance party had accepted his offer to serve [...]
©- - 02 july 2024 - 14:50:35 - thread Society (342 words)


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. In a video posted on social media, Karim Khan urged [...]
©- - 12 june 2024 - 06:48:06 - thread Society (677 words)


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. The FlySafair flight to Johannesburg was grounded while a police bomb squad was deployed to the airport “due to a possible [...]
©- - 07 june 2024 - 10:49:18 - thread Society (192 words)


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. That “roadmap”, [...]
©- - 15 may 2024 - 06:49:07 - thread Society (426 words)


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).  Cannabis resin remains [...]
©- - 21 april 2024 - 05:13:41 - thread Society (572 words)


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 [...]
©- - 05 april 2024 - 13:12:18 - thread Society (585 words)


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. He was 63. The former billionaire was due to hand himself over to police on Friday in connection with the manipulation of [...]
©- - 22 march 2024 - 08:44:40 - thread Society (177 words)


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. ICC Prosecutor, Mr Karim Khan, made a call [...]
©- - 19 march 2024 - 15:34:25 - thread Society (414 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African authorities have repatriated a two-year-old baby from a prison in Dakar, Senegal. The toddler was born in Senegal and has been in the care of the mother who was arrested last year in that country for drug trafficking. The Department of Social Development was [...]
©- - 13 march 2024 - 09:13:11 - thread Society (264 words)


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. On a mission to the Horn of Africa nation, Executive Director Waly underscored that “Somalia faces daunting challenges [...]
©- - 05 march 2024 - 06:28:44 - thread Society (764 words)


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. In his Office's latest report on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) scheduled to be [...]
©- - 28 february 2024 - 15:16:50 - thread Society (328 words)


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. Jason and Catharine Zoladz were attempting to drive to Cape Town International Airport, when they were ambushed at a dangerous intersection near [...]
©- - 08 february 2024 - 09:45:12 - thread Society (156 words)


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.   Harun is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war [...]
©- - 30 january 2024 - 06:38:31 - thread Society (406 words)


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. Prosecutor Karim Khan emphasised the [...]
©- - 30 january 2024 - 06:23:48 - thread Society (624 words)


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. The Chair of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, said [...]
©- - 19 january 2024 - 05:28:17 - thread Society (175 words)


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. This represents a significant advance for justice for the victims of grave abuses, Gambian and international groups that are part of the Jammeh2Justice campaign said [...]
©- - 05 january 2024 - 11:14:49 - thread Society (508 words)


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. "The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is able to confirm that Oscar Pistorius is a [...]
©- - 05 january 2024 - 07:44:03 - thread Society (274 words)


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. The double-amputee was granted parole on 24 November, and the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said he will complete the remainder of [...]
©- - 04 january 2024 - 09:38:48 - thread Society (223 words)


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.  António Guterres urged countries to strengthen cooperation, the rule of law and prevention efforts against this “vicious threat to peace, security, [...]
©- - 07 december 2023 - 19:24:30 - thread Society (858 words)


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. The research is intended to support the government in the design and implementation of policies to combat and mitigate the costs of crime on the [...]
©- - 22 november 2023 - 12:38:14 - thread Society (569 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Soweto man who stole Nelson Mandela's Sugar Ray Leonard boxing belt has been jailed for 10 years. Mandela was a keen amateur boxer and the former world champion gave him the prized belt in the 1990s. Zofrey Botha admitted that he removed the Boxing Council [...]
©- - 26 october 2023 - 09:02:06 - thread Society (226 words)


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. The names of the deceased have not been released. Bashir Hangi, spokesperson for the Uganda Wildlife Authority [...]
©- - 18 october 2023 - 07:42:24 - thread Society (149 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Police have confirmed that a prominent Palestinian businessman was shot and killed in Cape Town on Wednesday. Shafiq Nasser, who owns several businesses, was ambushed by gunmen on a motorcycle at a busy intersection. The 38-year-old was declared dead at the scene. Police confirmed that [...]
©- - 05 october 2023 - 15:15:47 - thread Society (108 words)


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. The body of the suspect's wife, Magistrate Mamello Thamae, was discovered in his car boot after the pair were reported missing from their home in Heilbron [...]
©- - 25 september 2023 - 11:30:19 - thread Society (208 words)


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.  “Every new wave of warfare brings with it a rising tide of human tragedy, including new [...]
©- - 15 july 2023 - 08:08:01 - thread Society (570 words)


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. Zandile Mafe told the Western Cape High Court that he did start the January 2022 blaze that gutted parts of the National [...]
©- - 13 july 2023 - 09:59:01 - thread Society (249 words)


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. There were no injuries reported, but millions of dollars in damages have been caused. The protests coincided with the second anniversary of the arrest of former President [...]
©- - 10 july 2023 - 10:07:06 - thread Society (264 words)


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. Juan Smuts said Kayishema will apply for asylum on political grounds in an application that will likely take at least two years, holding up [...]
©- - 21 june 2023 - 09:45:27 - thread Society (273 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Fulgence Kayishema, one of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives, has been arrested in Paarl, near Cape Town. The United Nations on Thursday confirmed that Kayishema was captured on Wednesday in a joint operation between South African authorities and a UN team tasked with tracking [...]
©- - 25 may 2023 - 12:39:11 - thread Society (262 words)


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. Ousman Sonko was Gambia’s interior minister from 2006 to 2016 under [...]
©- - 18 april 2023 - 16:30:17 - thread Society (486 words)


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. The paramedic was abducted in Libya in November 2017 and later sold to an ISIS group in Mali. His kidnappers have demanded [...]
©- - 16 april 2023 - 13:56:04 - thread Society (132 words)


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. “The fishing and cocoa industries show how criminal networks and corrupt [...]
©- - 28 february 2023 - 12:29:53 - thread Society (1016 words)


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. KwaZulu-Natal police confirmed the shooting outside a popular restaurant which also claimed the life of an unidentified man. AKA had been performing at YuGo, a [...]
©- - 11 february 2023 - 12:26:35 - thread Society (263 words)


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. Touré, a young man in his [...]
©- - 30 january 2023 - 16:24:54 - thread Society (268 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African legal analysts have condemned the murder of prominent eSwatini human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko on Saturday. Maseko, was chairperson of the pro-democracy MultiStakeholder Forum and he was involved in a legal spat with the monarch over the move to rename the country eSwatini [...]
©- - 25 january 2023 - 16:28:00 - thread Society (221 words)


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.  The UN fears the risk of these [...]
©- - 25 january 2023 - 05:27:29 - thread Society (524 words)


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". Scheduled to end on Monday, the conference was attended by Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, Syria and [...]
©- - 23 january 2023 - 18:16:31 - thread Society (522 words)


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). The SANDF said the soldiers are deployed by the Southern African [...]
©- - 11 january 2023 - 11:50:45 - thread Society (213 words)


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 [...]
©- - 10 january 2023 - 07:12:47 - thread Society (284 words)


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. The bill of indictment filed by the police before Principal Magistrate Muhammed Krubally of Banjul on Tuesday alleged that Mustapha Jabbi [...]
©- - 04 january 2023 - 13:01:50 - thread Society (172 words)


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 [...]
©- - 19 december 2022 - 13:31:07 - thread Society (929 words)

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