A Police officer from Ongha Police Station is being accused of conspiring with suspected human traffickers to release their victims from a shelter. The officer was allegedly paid N$10 000 to do so. Ohangwena regional police commander commissioner Ottilia Kashuupulwa confirmed this on Thursday. “The first offer was N$65 000, the second was N$30 000,...
A Namibian woman was arrested at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for suspected cocaine trafficking on Tuesday this week. The Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation’s executive director, Penda Naanda, has confirmed the arrest and that the suspect remains detained in Ethiopia. “Officials from the embassy of the Republic of Namibia to Ethiopia...
Hip-Hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and his ex-girlfriend, R&B vocalist Cassandra Ventura, on Friday settled the lawsuit in which she accused the rapper of serial physical abuse, sexual slavery and rape, according to her lawyers. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. In a joint written statement with Combs, Ventura said she “decided to...
Staff Reporter THE matter in which 13 suspects, mostly Chinese citizens, claimed that they were unlawfully detained for more than 48 hours, has been dismissed, and the suspects will be sent back to jail. The suspects were arrested in early October and face charges of human trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and racketeering, amounting to about...
An urgent application about the lawfulness of the detention of people arrested three weeks ago in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency investment scam that was operated from Namibia is scheduled to take place in the Windhoek High Court tomorrow. The hearing of the urgent application was postponed by judge George Coleman yesterday, after lawyer Sylvia...
Zorena Jantze THE 14 people arrested in a high-profile police operation earlier this month in Windhoek for human trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and racketeering, amounting to about N$ 8.8 million, today had their case postponed to 26 October 2023 for an Urgent Application hearing in the High Windhoek High Court. The suspects, through the urgent...
Nigeria has destroyed Pangolin scales worth 1.4 million dollars. The government says it’s a demonstration of its stand against trafficking and illegal trade, and resolve to conserve wildlife. Tesem Akende reports from Jos. The post Nigeria Pangolin scales to combat wildlife trafficking first appeared on Future Media. Source link
A Nigerian author and novelist, Gbenga Sokefun, has called on African leaders to beam searchlight on human trafficking of the male child. Sokefun, the author of a fiction, “Adigun”, in a release made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos said that trafficking of the African male child had received...
Journalists covering the human trafficking and irregular migration beat have been urged to be in-depth in reportage, and to go the extra mile in investigating and exposing the heinous crimes. The call was made on Saturday in Abuja at the closing session of a three-day training on ethics, do’s and don’ts of human trafficking and...