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Piers Potter
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Ghana deportees sue government over detention after US expulsion
Eleven people recently deported from the United States have taken legal action against the Ghanaian government, arguing that their detention in a military camp is...

South African hospital cleaner arrested with bag of human placentas
Police in Mpumalanga have arrested a hospital cleaner after she was allegedly caught with a bag of human placentas, which authorities believe she was trying...

Ancient Egyptian bracelet stolen from Cairo museum and melted down
Egypt’s interior ministry says a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that vanished from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been stolen and destroyed. The artefact, which dates...

Spain arrests 19 over killings on migrant boat from Senegal
Spanish police have arrested 19 people accused of murder, torture and abuse after more than 50 migrants went missing from a boat that set sail...

Top police official testifies on claims of criminal infiltration in South Africa’s justice system
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who shocked the nation by alleging that South Africa’s police and justice system had been infiltrated by criminal syndicates, testified...

Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director and Sundance founder, dies at 89
Robert Redford, the magnetic Hollywood leading man who later became an Oscar-winning director and a driving force behind independent cinema, has died at the age...

Gunmen kill 22 at baptism ceremony in western Niger
Gunmen on motorbikes have killed at least 22 people in a brutal attack on a village in Niger’s western Tillabéri region, local reports say. Witnesses...

Mali government under pressure as jihadist blockade chokes key trade routes
Mali’s military government is scrambling to contain growing anger over a blockade imposed by al-Qaeda-linked militants on major highways, where lorry drivers have faced ambushes,...

Somali police arrest TikTokers over video mocking president
Police in Somalia have arrested four TikTok content creators accused of insulting President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a viral dance video. The video shows several...

Kenyan Court Issues Arrest Warrant for British National in 2012 Murder Case
A Kenyan High Court has issued an arrest warrant for a British national suspected of murdering 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru more than a decade ago, a...