SOME 260 suspected cyber scammers have been arrested in a sting operation carried out across 14 African countries. The operation,…
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FORMER French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy…
THE French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine, worth $610m (£540m) off the coast of West Africa, French…
MALAWI’s former President Peter Mutharika has been declared the winner of last week’s elections, in a huge comeback for the…
AT least six of the 11 West Africans deported to Ghana as part of the US crackdown on immigration have…
UGANDA’s long-time President Yoweri Museveni has been confirmed to stand in the January 2026 elections, as he seeks to extend…
MALI, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have…
EGYPT’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for six…
BOTSWANA has declared a public holiday to celebrate the country’s victory in the men’s 4×400 metres at the World Athletics…
POLICE in Somalia have arrested four TikTokers for allegedly insulting President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a dance video. In the…
MALAWI’s former president Peter Mutharika has taken an early lead in this week’s election, according to provisional results. In his…
SOUTH African police say they have dismantled a crystal methamphetamine laboratory, with drugs worth $20m (£15m), discovered on a farm…
POLICE in Malawi have arrested eight people for alleged electoral fraud as the country waits for the final results of…
MORE than 70 people have been killed following a drone strike on a mosque in Sudan’s Darfur region, a senior…
A SOUTH African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in…
THE World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that 31 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the…
A FORMER defence minister and vocal critic of Togo’s government, Marguerite Gnakadé, has been arrested, according to security sources. Gnakadé,…
MALI’s military government has sought to calm anger over a blockade by Islamist militants on major highways where lorry drivers…
GUNMEN on motorbikes have shot dead 22 people, most of them attending a baptism ceremony, in an attack on a…
AT least 50 people have died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire near the Libyan coast on…