Crime

• Assailants on the run: Suspects wanted for hammering man's head

  
  4 hours ago
  Authorities are following crucial leads, call on anyone with information on the attack to come forth.

• Family of slain doctor seeks motive, justice

  
  17 hours ago
  Shooting was carried out by armed men who fled on motorcycles.

• Audi boss arrested in diesel scandal

  
  1 day ago
  Audi CEO Rupert Stadler has been arrested in connection with parent company Volkswagen's "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal.

• Mombasa police nab 95 youths suspected to be involved in crime

  
  2 days ago
  County police boss Johnston Ipara yesterday said the arrests were made on Saturday night during a swoop in Mvita, Kisauni and Nyali, which have recent

• Unknown assailants shoot doctor in Kisumu

  
  2 days ago
  Police in Kisumu have launched investigations into the shooting of a medical doctor at a bar along the Kisumu-Busia highway.

• Accounting officer is shot in the stomach

  
  4 days ago
  Maurice Amek is reported to have refused to the gangsters’ requests.

• Army general arrested over police spokesman’s killing

  
  4 days ago
  Ugandan authorities have arrested a former national police chief on suspicion of killing a senior police official.

• Two stabbed to death in South Africa mosque

  
  5 days ago
  A man stabbed two people to death and wounded two others in an attack at a mosque in South Africa.

• Florida man kills four children and himself

  
  6 days ago
  The man killed his four children aged 12, 10, 6 and 1 before turning the gun on himself after police standoff.

• Thugs shoot doctor, kill his wife in Thika

  
  1 week ago
  The gang attacked the home of Dr Kagimbi Kimani, who works at the Murang'a Level Four Hospital.

• Police blamed for laxity as cattle theft escalates

  
  1 week ago
  Nakuru residents woke up to a rude shock after six cows that had been stolen were found slaughtered a short distance from the area.

• Congo's Bemba seeks release after war crimes acquittal

  
  1 week ago
  Congo's ex-vice president whose war crimes conviction was quashed on appeal last week, will seek his immediate release on Tuesday from the ICC

• Government to publish draft data protection bill this month

  
  1 week ago
  Kenya will publish a draft data protection law this month to create safeguards for personal data held by mobile phone-based lenders and others

• Lawmakers approve cyber law, tighten rules on Google, Facebook

  
  1 week ago
  Vietnamese lawmakers approved a controversial cybersecurity voting amid tight security following weekend protests.

• Museveni: No more hooded motorcyclists

  
  1 week ago
  Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has said his government will ban the wearing of hooded jackets while riding motorcycles, in a bid to reduce crime.

• Why tax fraud rise worries experts

  
  1 week ago
  Investigators of tax fraud and related financial crimes have gone back to class as they step up the war on the illicit practices.

• Crackdown on illegal fuel dens intensified

  
  1 week ago
  A security team in Eldoret has intensified a crackdown on petroleum traders operating illegally.

• Triple axe murderer 'showed no remorse'

  
  1 week ago
  Henri Van Breda, who murdered his father, mother and brother with an axe in South Africa in 2015, has been sentenced to life in prison.

• Couple in hospital after acid attack

  
  1 week ago
  They claim they received threatening messages on phone before the attack.

• Shocking statistics of sex crimes in schools

  
  2 weeks ago
  Hostile teachers have frustrated attempts to punish offenders.