An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda’s most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and Ugandan driver Jean Paul were on a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park when four gunmen ambushed their vehicle on Tuesday evening, a police statement said. Various illegal …

A 19-year-old senior high school student, Abigail Manu, feigned her kidnapping and requested her father to send her a ¢500 ransom being demanded by the supposed kidnapper. Her stratagem, however, failed after her 11-year-old brother led her father and police officers to the house of her 25-year-old lover, Reagan Boabeng Ampofo, at Mpobi, about 12 kilometres from Kumasi, the Ashanti …