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Sandton businessman's son is kidnapped - for ransom

Police acted fast to arrest two young men and a teenager on Friday, following the kidnapping of a Sandton businessmans son in an attempt to claim a R400,000 ransom. Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini said the 17-, 18- and 22-year-olds contacted the businessmans son, who is aged 18, on Friday morning and asked for his address. On their arrival at his residential address, he was forced into a vehicle and they contacted his father and demanded a R400,000 ransom before they could release his son....

Man in remand for indecent assault

One Ousman Ceesay, a Gambian national, was yesterday remanded at the State Central Prison in Mile Two by Senior Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Bundung Magistrates Court following his alleged indecent assault on a teenager. When the charge sheet was read to him, he pleaded not guilty. According to the prosecution, the accused on August 10, 2008, at Tallinding Nema Kunda, took a 15-year old girl (name withheld) to a brothel and forced her to perform indecent acts. The accused requested...

“Proud To Play For The Gambia” - OJ Koroma

The young Gambian teenager Omar Koroma, has expressed his happiness and readiness to play at senior national level after receiving a call to come and play for his homeland in the 2010 World and African cup of nations qualifiers. OJ Koroma, who has just registered his name in the history of the English league after been the first Gambian to be signed by an English Premiership club, Portsmouth and loaned to the English championship team Norwich City. He is expected to make his first appearance...

Nigerian embroiled in attempted rape allegations

A Nigerian national, Ikeme Peters, was yesterday charged at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court for attempting to rape a teenager. The facts of the matter stated that Ikeme, in April of this year, attempted to rape a girl in her teens. The incident allegedly occurred in Tallinding and the girl involved is a student. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and the prosecution had sought for the adjournment of the case ‘because the girl’ is a student and had gone to school to sit to her exams. The...

Boy, 21, charged with defilement

Bakary Keita, 21, was recently charged with defiling a teenager. Bakary, a resident of Nema Kunku village in Kombo North, was lately arraigned at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court where he was charged with defiling a girl under the consent age. He was granted bail in the sum of D50, 000 and will reappear in court on April 22.

Guinean Charged With Rape

A 40-year-old Guinean was charged with raping a teenager in Wellingara village. Wurry Jallow appeared before Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Janneh at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court on Monday for allegedly raping a teenage girl. Pleading on behalf of the accused on the issue of bail conditions, Lawyer O.D. Mbye posited that refusing Jallow bail can cause his family to suffer from want or lack. He indicated that the accused do not have any reason to jump bail if given because he’s a responsible man with...

Teenage Mother Caught After Dumping Baby

As baby dumping once again threatens to rear its ugly head, The Point has gathered from dependable sources that a 15-year-old girl of Wellingara village in Kombo North was last Thursday reportedly caught in an attempt to kill her newly-born baby. According to the sources, the 15-year-old girl (name withheld) reportedly threw her newly-born baby in a toilet on 1st November shortly after giving birth to it. Sources say the girl’s move was in a desperate attempt to get rid of the baby. According...

Teenager Drowns in Kubuneh

Yet another tragic incident has occurred last Saturday when a 15-year-old girl, Jarra Colley of Brikama, drowned in Kubuneh, Kombo North District. Jarra reportedly went to Kubuneh on Friday, 28th September, to visit family members but sadly met her untimely death the following day. The incident, which shocked residents, is still said to be shrouded in mystery. The body of the deceased was then rushed to the Banjulinding Health Centre while a report of the tragedy was lodged with the Yundum...

BURKINA FASO: Girl's death prompts search for new strategies to fight FGM

The death of a 14-year-old girl from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has sparked shock and anger in Burkina Faso, which has been seen as far ahead of other African countries in the fight against the practice. “Sorrowful and shocking" is how Aïna Ouédraogo, permanent secretary of the National Committee for the Fight against Excision (CNLPE), described the girl's death. The teenager was one of 15 girls – aged 4 to 14 – who were circumcised the week of 17 September in the rural town of...

ZIMBABWE: Child migrants seek a better life in South Africa

He is only a teenager, but he is already a seasoned border jumper. Dressed in a torn t-shirt and blue work trousers, Robert, 16, (not his real name) told IRIN he had crossed the border from Zimbabwe four times since he first decided to come to South Africa in January this year. He was arrested and deported for the first time late last month, but returned to the South African border town of Musina, in Limpopo Province, within a day and said he would only stay in Zimbabwe "when I have three...