Tag: Crime

The ex-con, illegal guns and the fear of Kenya’s police

As Kenya struggles with rising violent crime, BBC Africa Eye follows one…

Elijah Kanyi & Tamasin Ford Elijah Kanyi & Tamasin Ford

Nigeria’s Chibok girls: Parents of kidnapped children heartbroken – again

Ten years after Boko Haram gunmen abducted his daughter from her school…

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Thabo Bester: The South African rapist who faked his own death to escape prison

The daring prison break, the celebrity girlfriend and the escape across borders…

Humans of Africa Humans of Africa

Zamfara wedding kidnapping escapee recounts attack

A Nigerian couple have put their wedding celebrations on hold after gunmen…

Ishaq Khalid Ishaq Khalid

I can’t remember how many people I have killed

I am Abdulfatai Olagunju Tijani Ifeanyi. I’m from Erin-Ile in the Oyun…

My married boyfriend ordered an acid attack on me

My name is Ladi Ishaku. I am 27 years old. I reside…

Ladi Ishaku Ladi Ishaku

My hands were chopped off by Fulani bandits – 70-year-old Oyo vigilante

Before I could jump off the motorcycle one of my hands had…

Amodu Bakare Amodu Bakare

I was shot five times because I looked like the man sleeping with his girlfriend

Everything was grey. I could hear my friend Priscilla screaming and voices…

Jay Wilson Jay Wilson

Bougobali and “The Dancer Thieves” behind bars in Burkina Faso

The pain, anger and sorrow that resulted from the death of his…

Seraphine Akua Dogbey Seraphine Akua Dogbey

Foutanga Sissoko: The playboy who got away with $242m – using ‘black magic’

One day in August 1995 a man called Foutanga Babani Sissoko walked…

Brigitte Scheffer, BBC Brigitte Scheffer, BBC