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Ugandan authorities have currently detained Stephen Tarus, Kenya's former Assistant Minister for Internal Security, on charges of smuggling gold into the country using counterfeit documents. Arrested last week, Mr Tarus was brought…

Former U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will join a South African delegation for this week's hearings at the International Court of Justice, where the country accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the war in…

A Haitian judge has issued arrest warrants for more than 30 senior officials accused of government corruption, including many former presidents and prime ministers. The warrants, issued on Friday and leaked on social media over the…

Chadian politician Succès Masra was named the first Prime minister under the nation's newly adopted 5th Republic Constitution. The announcement was read on national television on 1st January by minister Mahamat Ahmad Alhabo. "Through…

The family of a South African held hostage in Libya and then Mali for more than six years thanked the Algerian authorities for their role in his release in mid-December. Gerco Van Deventer, 48, was freed on 17th December on the border…

Ethiopian police have announced the arrest of a former minister accused of "collaborating" with Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebels. Taye Dendea, former Minister Delegate for Peace, had posted on his Facebook account on Monday a letter…

Former Sierra Leonean president Ernest Bai Koroma has been placed under house supervision in what the opposition say is house arrest following the recent violence. Koroma was questioned on Monday 11th December for the third time by…

Ivory Coast's nationalist former president Henri Konan Bedie, who had not excluded the possibility of a return to power even in his latter days, has died aged 89, his party said. The "Ivory Coast Democratic Party-African Democratic Rally…

South African ruling party, ANC, announced has that former secretary-general Ace Magashule had been expelled from the party. Magashule faces accusations of misconduct and other breaches of party rules, while also facing charges of …

A former all-powerful prime minister of Burundi, Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, appeared in court, where he is accused of undermining national security and insulting the president, witnesses and a judicial source reported. “Everyone was…