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The most recent statistics recorded by the South African Police Service (SAPS) for the first quarter of 2022 reveal that three police stations in KwaZulu-Natal have become a hotbed of murders in South Africa. In 2021/22Kwazulu Natal recorded the highest murder rate with 1,682 murders – an...

In the first quarter of 2022, a total of 898 women and 306 children were murdered in South Africa, according to the most recent statistics from the South African Police Service (SAPS).In 2020/21, a total of 2,655 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 1.5% decrease from the previ...

On 26 August 2006, the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels signed a peace deal in Juba, South Sudan. ...

The South African Police Service's Annual Report recorded 21,341 murders in 2019/20. Of those victims, 2,695 were women and 17,703were men. This works out to an average of 7 women and 48 men murdered per day in South Africa. ...

In 2020, the Global Terrorism Index ranked Nigeria third out of 138 countries. The index defines terrorism as “the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation”. ...

In 2019/20, a recorded 392 people died as a result of police action. In the 2018/19 financial year, the number was 393. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate defines death as a result of police action as the death of any person caused or believed to have been caused by a member of the ...

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) is ranked the most corrupt entity in Nigeria. ...

There is one police officer – excluding administrative staff – for every 405 people. The ratio is based on Statistics South Africa's mid-year population estimates (59.6 million in 2020) and the number of non-administrative police (147,070) given in the South African Police Service's 2019/20 annu...

According to the Department of Social Development, more people contacted the Gender-Based Violence Command Centre during the first two months of South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown. The government established the call centre to “provide immediate care, support and counselling to victims of...