Crime & Law Africa

JUST IN: Bodies believed to be of three missing police officers recovered in Hennops River  The Citizen

Bodies believed to be of three missing police officers recovered at Hennops River  The Citizen

JUST IN: Bodies believed to be of three missing police officers recovered in Hennops River  The Citizen

[GroundUp] Food aid and medical supplies are currently blocked by Israel

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Opposition leaders have condemned what they termed as ‘state-sanctioned violence and creeping authoritarianism’ under President William Ruto’s administration, following the killing of five people during a land dispute in Kilgoris, Transmara West.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — Three major opposition parties–the National Patriotic Party (NPP), Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP), and People’s Unification Party (PUP)–have jointly endorsed the Supreme Court’s recent decision reinstating Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa and urged restraint from political actors in the wake of the ruling.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — The Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP) has accused the government of President Joseph Boakai of unleashing violence on student activists, following a police crackdown on the University of Liberia’s Capitol Hill campus that has sparked outrage and condemnation from both students and the university administration.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — Captain Jerry K. Kollie, former spokesperson of Liberia’s disbanded soldiers, is urging the government to officially commission his team to assist in apprehending those behind the recent arson attack on the Capitol Building.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — Senator Augustine Chea, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Claims and Petitions, has asserted that the recent Supreme Court ruling on the House leadership dispute does not nullify critical legislative actions, including the passage of the 2025 national budget.

[FrontPageAfrica] FDA Managing Director Rudolph Merab illegally granted Mavasagueh in Compound Number Two, Grand Bassa a community forest status. Merab approved Mavasagueh’s logging contract with C&C Corporation, co-owned and run by Clarence Massaquoi, an ineligible logger. Then Khalil Haider, a Duport Road resident, wrote to the FDA to claim 3,200 acres of Mavasagueh. Against the law, Merab encouraged Haider to compromise his claim and bargain with Massaquoi. Another person, Amos Lewis, also wrote Merab,