Ruto said the compensation was not the “price of life, of pain or of loss,” and that should not be seen as a “reward for violence or criminality” in a country where violent protests are common.
READ MOREA landmark trial is set to begin in the Central African Republic, where former president Francois Bozize will be tried in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity.
In Zimbabwe, a court ruling dismissing a legal challenge by war veterans against proposed constitutional amendments has sparked divided reactions.
While police were not yet able to confirm that there had been a ransom demand in the kidnapping of a Gqeberha woman, a security company that was first at the scene following the abduction reports that such a demand had been made.
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) has made a breakthrough, securing arrests in the murder of one of its own nearly two years after the killing.
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg has dismissed the appeal of Nhlanhla Hendry Tshabalala, a traffic officer convicted of three counts of attempted murder.
After more than two years behind bars in Equatorial Guinea, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham have been released and are back in South Africa.
A growing convergence of conflict,climate shocks,and waning international support has driven displacement in West and Central Africa to record levels,with nearly 13 million people uprooted,according
'This is a shocking incident – no one should feel unsafe at the cinema.'
The mum of two's husband has been charged with her murder.
Thomas Campbell was found with his ankles bound by duct tape, a murder trial has heard.
The mum had £80,000 worth of cannabis in her suitcases.
Police have launched a murder appeal following the fatal assault of 75-year-old John Murray in Chiswick last year.
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