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Police are searching for three more suspects in the unexplained disappearance of Dutchman Tob Cohen. Police arrested 3 suspects earlier this week including Sarah Wairimu Kamotho the wife of the Dutchman in connection with his disappearance which they now believe to be a murder case.

Nigeria is in the grip of a kidnapping crisis. Thousands of Nigerians have fallen victims to a rise in the crime and are having to pay millions of dollars in ransom.

Liberian Observer  Luyanda Kopakopa, the girl who complained that she found condoms in Edith Nawakwi’s sausages is still detained at Kabwata police station. The 19-year old clinical medicine student was arrested following a complaint by Edith Nawakwi after she produced and circulated videos in which she said she found a condom in a sausage made by Legana Investments. Luyando also sued Legana Investment Limited for the nausea she suffered.

 Zambian Watchdog  Luyanda Kopakopa, the girl who complained that she found condoms in Edith Nawakwi’s sausages is still detained at Kabwata police station. The 19-year old clinical medicine student was arrested following a complaint by Edith Nawakwi after she produced and circulated videos in which she said she found a condom in a sausage made by Legana Investments. Luyando also sued Legana Investment Limited for the nausea she suffered.

The Chronicle  The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has seized carbonated drinks and alcoholic beverages that have not been affixed with excise tax stamps. The products are mostly imported – Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Canada Dry, Heineken, Red And Black Label and several others. Kwaku Apau Anto, Head of Excise, GRA, told The Chronicle and other media personnel present at the Accra Business District area, that the GRA would continue to seize products that manufacturers and importers had failed to affixed stamps to.

 Daily Nation    Former Makadara MP Reuben Ndolo was Tuesday charged with creating disturbance and threatening to kill. Mr Ndolo, who was charged alongside six others, appeared before Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku, where he denied the charges. He was released on a cash bail of Sh200,000.

The Chronicle The Zimbabwe National Army bomb disposal squad and police were on Monday called to Bulawayo’s Emganwini suburb after residents stumbled on a hand grenade believed to have been left in the area during the war of liberation.

The Namibian  A 23-YEAR-OLD woman was hacked to death allegedly by her husband on Friday at Sikali village near Rundu in the Kavango West region. Kavango West police acting crime investigations coordinator, detective chief inspector Nikolaus Kupembona, told Nampa on Friday that the incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, around 01h30.

I was just reading a story in the Washington Post about teenagers being held at gunpoint by a white woman  am I am not surprised and I don't know why people act surprised when these things happen. I have always seen slavery as a white problem that was never addressed and never purged and certainly the racism that pervades that cultural group is a legacy of slavery. That it continually persists is because it is allowed to do so both by those who condone it overtly and those whites who appear to abhor it. I remember when I spent time in the USA during the eighties my parents were constantly warning me to be careful and not to take chances. When I was there and the police were coming on one side of the campus I would go to the other side. Day after day I was aware that as a black man or black boy in the US your life was worth nothing. Somehow it seems that they are certain facts that people do not understand. Black people are not seen as equals to whites among whites because

The Observer President Yoweri has lambasted Ugandans for failing to make use of their abundant land and available labour to create wealth for themselves and the country. Museveni said the reason why 68 per cent of the Ugandan population is poor, is because they are living outside the money economy - producing and earning nothing.

News24 A couple from Birchleigh in Kempton Park was arrested on August 7 for the alleged murder of their 5-month-old baby boy. According to police spokesperson Captain Lesibana Molokomme, they were called to the couple's house in Jonathan Street on August 4.

Daily Monitor: As police embark on investigating the death of musician Michael Kalinda aka Ziggy Wyne was kidnapped, beaten and left for dead a couple of weeks ago, Kyaddondo East Member of Parliament Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has issued a statement saying such atrocities will not deter them from struggling for political change.

Rwanda New Times The Ministry of Health has said that people should effectively report any Ebola case, as well as wash their hands at border crossings as a means of preventing the spreading of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Dr Diane Gashumba, the Minister of Health, told Sunday Times that the first preventive measure against the disease is avoiding contact with the affected individual, but also, underscored the importance of hygiene to keep people free from the epidemic.