Africa

African rhino poaching rates declined from 3.9% of the continent's rhino population in 2018 to 2.3% in 2021, most likely due...

Experts say that last week’s U.S. Treasury sanctions against top Liberian officials may be a major step but are still...

Nigerian police arrested 17 people over their alleged involvement in a cyber fraud ring, continuing its crackdown on...

Guinea-Bissau continues to serve as a key cocaine transit point between Latin America and Europe, despite government pledges...

Throughout Nigeria, Pentecostal churches act as a gateway for criminal organizations to traffic young girls across Europe...

Moroccan authorities have created an “ecosystem of repression” to stifle free speech and scare off critics in practices that...

A wise thief can hear profit in the wind, or so the saying goes, but he cannot hear the silent alarm, nor the two policemen...

Latvian prosecutors have charged a shareholder and top managers of the country’s erstwhile third largest bank, ABLV, with...

Following several months of careful legal negotiation, South Africa formally asked the UAE to extradite brothers Rajesh and...

Madagascar authorities have suspended four illegal gold mining operations that were run by Chinese nationals on the Kamoro...

One year ago, the Pegasus Project unveiled how a program from the Israeli spyware-firm, NSO group, had become the choice...

Hundreds of South Africa’s abandoned coal mines pose a deadly risk to local communities and threaten to pollute the water of...