Meet Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi, the force behind Bobi Wine

By Waihiga Mwaura,

I first saw Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi in person one day before the 2021 Ugandan General election. She stepped out of their Magere home alongside he...

Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi , Bobi Wine , uganda

Bobi Wine rubbishes claim that he is ‘planning to kidnap himself’

By Edwin Obuya,

Uganda's main presidential challenger Robert Kyangulani alias Bobi Wine has dismissed claims that he is 'planning to kidnap himself' after elections. ...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

Form 3 boy reported missing in Meru faked kidnapping, nabbed ‘living large’ in Nkubu

By Tonny Ndungu,

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) based in Meru have discovered that a Form 3 boy who has allegedly been kidnapped from...

Boko Haram kills at least seven in Christmas Eve attack in Nigeria

By CNN,

At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Eve, a lo...

Boko Haram , Nigeria

NorCal rapist sentenced to 897 years in prison

By CNN,

Roy Charles Waller, known as the 'NorCal Rapist', will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Waller was sentenced to 897 years to life in state p...

rape , Rapist

Chaos, jubilation as freed Nigerian schoolboys reunite with family

By Reuters,

Parents sobbed, mobbed their children in hugs and even kissed the ground in gratitude on Friday as they reunited with scores of Nigerian schoolboys wh...

Boko Haram , Chibok , Nigeria

KDF officer linked to kidnap of Nyeri businessman

By Citizen Reporter,

A Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Private and three civilians suspected to have kidnapped a businessman at Kiawara Trading Centre in Nyeri, have been arres...

KDF Private , Kidnap

Over 300 Nigerian schoolboys who were kidnapped by gunmen rescued

By Reuters,

Security forces rescued nearly 350 Nigerian schoolboys who had been kidnapped and taken into a vast forest, Katsina state Governor said. It was not...

Boko Haram , Chibok , Nigeria

Boko Haram claim responsibility for kidnap of over 300 schoolboys

By Reuters,

A man identifying himself as the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram said on Tuesday the Islamist group was behind the abduction of more than 300 schoolb...

Boko Haram , Chibok

Nigerian military in firefight with gang who kidnapped students

By Reuters,

The Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina state, acco...

Nigeria

DCI detective handed 5-year jail term for kidnapping 2 foreigners

By Tonny Ndungu,

A Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detective who previously worked at the directorate's Nairobi office has been sentenced to five years in...

Senior Private KDF soldier among 4 arrested for kidnapping a man in Kasarani

By Tonny Ndungu,

A 28-year-old Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) senior private has been arrested alongside three others by detectives based in Kasarani. In a statement by...

KDF

Westgate mall attack: Two men jailed for 18 and 33years

By Reuters,

Two men were on Friday sentenced to 18 years in prison for helping al Shabaab gunmen in a 2013 attack on the Westgate mall that killed 67 people. M...

Westgate Mall

States bracing for possible violence as US election nears

By VOA,

Officials across the United States already charged with securing the upcoming presidential election are taking additional precautions, bracing for the...

US Elections

How gunmen abducted man acquitted in Westgate Mall attack trial

By Reuters,

Gunmen abducted a man moments after he was released from State custody a day after he was acquitted of charges of helping al Shabaab militants storm t...

westgate

Al Shabaab frees two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya

By Citizen Reporter,

Two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya and held for over a year in Somalia have been released after months of negotiations. According to the...

Al Shabaab , Cuban doctors

These three women stood up to Europe’s longest-serving dictator, here’s what happened to them

By CNN,

Five weeks have passed since Belarus learned the results of its presidential election, in which the country's Central Election Commission announced t...

Belarus , Maria Kolesnikova , President Alexander Lukashenko , Svetlana Tikhanovskaya , Veronika Tsepkalo

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terrorism charges

By Reuters,

Rwanda said it had arrested Paul Rusesabagina - the man who was hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about the country’s 1994 genocide - on terrorism ...

Hotel Rwanda , Rusesabagina , Rwanda

Police beat me and told me I’d never play football again, says Maguire

By Reuters,

Manchester United captain Harry Maguire told the BBC on Thursday that he feared for his life and thought he was being kidnapped as he was arrested by ...

Greek Island , Harry Maguire , Manchester United captain , Mykonos , Police

OPINION: The right to live free from violence is a basic human right even as we battle COVID-19

By Guest Writer,

The right to live free from violence, to be inseparable from your right and need to keep your body to yourself, to walk unscathed from the fists of ag...

coronavirus , FGM , GBV