NEW YORK – The U.N. secretary-general warned Sunday that the increase in social and economic pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a global increase in violence against women and girls. Last week, Antonio Guterres called for a global cease-fire so that the international community could focus all of its
JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN – South Sudan confirmed its first COVID-19 case Sunday, a 29-year old woman who entered the country on Feb. 28 from the Netherlands via Addis Ababa. The U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said the individual is a U.N. staff member who has been in the
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Some of Uganda’s poorest people used to work here, on the streets of Kampala, as fruit sellers sitting on the pavement or as peddlers of everything from handkerchiefs to roasted peanuts. Now they’re gone and no one knows when they will return, victims of a global economic
NELSPRUIT – Mpumalanga police have arrested four suspects aged between 23 and 51, on charges of Stock Theft yesterday, Saturday 04 April 2020, just after midnight at Mmametlhake. Reports revealed that police in Mmametlhake were busy with their routine patrols near Nokaneng when they spotted a White Toyota Hilux Bakkie
Cape Town: Various operations in the Western Cape throughout the weekend paid off with the seizure of three firearms, ammunition and drugs. Members attached to the Manenberg SAPS Crime Prevention Unit and Gugulethu police seized a pistol and rounds of ammunition and arrested a 33-year-old suspect yesterday evening at a
Port Elizabeth: Three alleged murder suspects were arrested shortly after the murder of a 21-year-old man in Walmer Township last night. It is alleged that on Saturday, 4 April 2020 at about 22:45, Xolani Maneli, his younger brother and four other male were at a house in Phelakula Street. An
Pretoria – Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, on Sunday morning, 05 April 2020 welcomed the general decrease in serious and violent crimes, attributing this to amongst other factors, the prohibition of the sale and movement of liquor since the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown. The 2019-2020 National Crime Statistics are yet to
