Crimes & Courts

Former Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi is critically ill with colon cancer and is in South Africa where he is undergoing chemotherapy, his lawyer has revealed.

An imprisoned murderer is being investigated after confessing to 90 killings across four decades in the US.

Kenyan police have fired warning shots at anti-corruption officers to help two colleagues accused of bribery to escape from detention, Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said.

Government has handed a prison sentence to a trader selling foreign currency outside the official exchange rate, marking the advent of the crackdown on a black market it says destabilizes the country’s currency.

The State yesterday opposed former minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s application for exception of charges, arguing that he was just trying to abscond from trial and conviction as there is evidence that he did not follow procedure when he allegedly illegally allocated land to former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s sister Ms Shuvai Junior Gumbochuma.