No less than 16 traveling Nigerians from the northern part of the country were reportedly killed in a horrifying display of ...

A mob in southern Nigeria has killed 16 people, at least some them when tires were forced over their heads and shoulders and set on fire, because they were believed to be kidnappers.

In some African countries, mob justice and vigilantism are deeply entrenched in people's minds as the right thing to do when they feel the justice system is failing them, says Maame Efua Addadzi ...

Limpopo police have successfully arrested four suspects connected to a stolen vehicle case in Sekhukhune following an ...

South African Police Service (Saps) official Thulare Norman Sekhukhune revealed that arguments, misunderstandings, road rage, and provocation were the leading causes of murder, attempted murder, and ...

Racheal Kawala, the Wamala regional police spokesperson, confirmed the incident, noting that police were informed about it ...

Limpopo police are searching for community members who burned a man to death after he was allegedly caught naked attempting ...

We want to see this police force return to Bukavu so that it can continue to maintain public order and, above all, intervene in cases of mob justice," he said. His organisation, the Observatory of ...

There is simply no justification for other ordinary citizens to attack anybody else, regardless of the supposed crime committed here. Indeed, what has occurred is yet another incident of mob justice, ...

Mob justice—where a group of people takes the law into their own hands, often inflicting brutal violence or even death upon an accused individual—has become alarmingly common. The victims of ...

The interim government remains firm against mob justice and moral policing, Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said. Speaking at a press conference at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka ...