Africa

Kenyan police have arrested a man who they have described as a “serial killer” suspected to have been behind the gruesome murder of nine women whose mutilated bodies were found in a disused quarry used as a rubbish dump. Police say Jomaisi Khalisia, 33, confessed to having killed 42 women since 2022, including his own … Read more

The Gambia’s lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to overturn a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). Speaker of Parliament, Fa­bakary Tombong Jatta, said a majority of MPs had voted against the bill even before its third and final reading, due later this month. Human rights groups and the UN had urged MPs to … Read more

 Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, feared and admired in equal measure, is seeking to extend his 24-year rule in an election analysts say he will win by a landslide. He has dominated every election since becoming president in 2000, with over 90% of the vote. In 2017 he won with a staggering 99% in an election … Read more

Officers at a police station near a rubbish dump where dismembered body parts were found have been transferred, Kenya’s acting inspector general of police has said. On Sunday, Douglas Kan­ja Kirocho said that so far, eight female bodies had been retrieved from the site in the capital, Nairobi. Kenya’s police watchdog previously announced it was … Read more

 An astounding number of mass graves surround Thabani Dhlamini’s home in south-western Zimbabwe. One pointed out to the BBC lies near the ablution block at a primary school in the village of Salankomo in Tsholotsho district. Teachers were killed and dumped there in the 1980s. In another, steps away from Mr Dhlamini’s house, 22 relatives … Read more