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A Zambian lawmaker facing robbery charges has been arrested in Zimbabwe after escaping custody earlier this year, Zambian authorities confirmed. Emmanuel "Jay Jay" Banda, an independent MP since 2021, fled from Chipata Central Hospital…

Three Senegalese opposition lawmakers were arrested amid the fallout from parliament's move to delay a presidential vote by 10 months that prompted West Africa's economic and political bloc to call for the re-establishment of the electoral…

Four French civil servants, intelligence agents according to a Burkinabè source, and computer maintenance technicians according to a French diplomatic source, were arrested in Ouagadougou at the beginning of December, in a context of very…

Gabonese deposed president Ali Bongo Ondimba's son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, and several members of his cabinet were jailed and charged with "high treason" and "active corruption", the Libreville prosecutor said. Ali Bongo's eldest son,…

Ethiopian security forces say that they had arrested 47 suspects after the murder of a leader of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ruling party, accusing him of plotting to overthrow the regime. Girma Yeshitila, leader of the Welfare Party in…

A South African convicted murderer who faked his death to escape from prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt, police have announced. South African officials are to extradite Thabo Bester, 35, dubbed the…

Mauritania Police says it has arrested a man believed to be the organiser of the escape of four terrorists detainees from the central prison in the capital, Nouakchott, three weeks earlier. In a statement posted on Facebook, they said a…

A Tunisian protest coalition says it would not stop working to unite the opposition against President Kais Saied despite the arrest of its top leaders, and added that it would hold a demonstration on 5th   March. Tunisian police have…

A leader of Tunisian Ennahdha party and the director of a private radio station were arrested Monday night, according to the political group and the media. The arrests come as part of a crackdown launched this weekend by the Tunisian…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Nigeria, has arrested an official of one of the commercial banks for alleged sabotage of the availability of Naira notes. This comes as the the…