The sentencing follows an intense eight-week trial during which the court heard devastating details surrounding the girl’s ...

Boakai's Plane Suffers Landing Scare At Liberian AirportThe Liberian airport authorities briefly cancelled all inbound flights after a private jet ferrying President Joseph Boakai experienced a ...

Joshlin Smith is still missing and is feared dead after her mom sold her to a traditional healer who wanted her for 'her eyes ...

A shocking case out of South Africa has put the issue of human trafficking front and center, a reminder of the urgent need for systemic changes to prevent such abominable crimes. Racquel "Kelly" Smith ...

In a deeply unsettling case that has gripped South Africa, Racquel “Kelly” Smith and two accomplices have been sentenced on ...

A South African woman, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, 34, along with her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and friend, Steveno van Rhyn, ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Eleven-year-old Ghanaian spelling whizz ...

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, ...

ShareA South African woman convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in ...

Kelly Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, attends her sentencing at the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay, South Africa ...

The girl, Joshlin Smith, is still missing, and the case has haunted South Africa. Prosecutors said that the mother was ...