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Feb

2023

Cameroonian businessman arrested after journalist’s murder

AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG A Cameroonian businessman was arrested in connection with the murder of a prominent journalist, Martinez Zogo, whose mutilated remains were found near the capital Yaounde last month after he was abducted, the national radio station CRTV said. The case has roiled the Central African nation, with some government and security officials cited by media as suspects. The president's office said last week that several suspects had been arrested, but gave no details. Zogo, the director of private radio station Amplitude FM, was kidnapped on January 17 by unknown assailants after trying to enter a police station to escape…

Feb

2023

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Kenya: Police officers jailed for lawyer’s murder

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HUMPHREY MALALO A Kenyan court sentenced three police officers and their civilian informant to decades in prison for the 2016 murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others. The case triggered outrage in Kenya, where police face frequent allegations of brutality and extrajudicial killings but are almost never charged. Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and their driver, Joseph Muiruri, were killed shortly after filing a complaint of police brutality, alleging that Mwendwa had been shot and wounded by police. Their bodies were later recovered from a river outside the capital Nairobi. The four defendants were convicted of murder last year.…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Video shows Memphis police officers kicking, beating Tyre Nichols

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ALYSSA POINTER and STEVE GORMAN TYRE Nichols repeatedly cried, "Mom! Mom!” as the five Memphis police officers now charged with the Black motorist's murder pummeled him with kicks, punches and baton blows after a Jan. 7 traffic stop, video released by the city on Friday showed. The video from police body-worn cameras and a camera mounted on a utility pole were posted online a day after the officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression in Nichols' death. The officers, all Black, were dismissed from the police department last week. Nichols, 29, was hospitalized and died of…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Five ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder in death of Tyre Nichols

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TYLER CLIFFORD FIVE former Memphis police officers were charged with murder in the death of a Black motorist, Tyre Nichols, from injuries he sustained in a violent encounter following a traffic stop, prosecutors said. Nichols, a 29-year-old father, died while hospitalized on January 10, three days after the confrontation during his arrest by the five police officers. Officials were expected on Friday evening to release police body-worn camera video of the incident, which a lawyer for Nichols' family likened to the notorious footage of Los Angeles police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King more than 30 years ago. "We're here…

Oct

2022

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Murder of Johannesburg sex workers shows why South Africa must urgently decriminalise the trade

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THE decomposed bodies of six women, four of whom were identified as sex workers, were recently discovered at a panel beating factory in Johannesburg. A 20-year-old man has been charged with six counts of murder. The case highlights, again, the risks of sex work for women in South Africa. It also puts the spotlight on the regulation of sex work. As a commissioner for the Commission for Gender Equality, I was involved in drafting its 2013 position paper on sex work: Decriminalising Sex Work in South Africa. Author AMANDA GOUWS, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African…

Jul

2020

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Ex-assistant arrested for CEO’s murder

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NEW York police have made a major breakthrough in the murder investigation into the grisly death of Fahim Saleh, the co-founder and CEO of Nigeria’s motorcycle ride-sharing company Gokada. Police have arrested Saleh’s former executive assistant who has appeared in court and charged with the murder of his former boss. Tyresse Devon Haspil (21) has been charged with murder. Saleh was found murdered and dismembered inside his 7th floor $2-million New York apartment. Sources have told The New York Daily News that Haspil murdered his boss after stealing $100,000 from him. Haspil, whose duties included handling Saleh’s finances and personal…

Jul

2020

By The African Mirror

Nigerian businessman killed, dismembered

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OWN CORRESPONDENT NEW York Police have started a manhunt to find a suspected cold-blooded killer who dismembered Fahim Saleh, the CEO of Nigerian bike-hailing company Gokada, in his $2-million 7th floor apartment. Family, friends and business associates of Saleh (33) were shocked by his brutal murder. According to reports from New York, police are looking for the suspected killer who fled the scene of the crime just moments before Saleh’s sister arrived at the crime scene. Police suspect that the sister's arrival disturbed the killer, who they believe planned to clean the apartment and dispose of the body. The killer…