Africa

Since they first separated from Ukraine in 2014, a nexus of crime, corruption and rebellion has flourished in the...

Victims of Beirut’s deadly 2020 port blast have filed a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit in Texas which blames a U.K.-based...

Gold smuggling, organized by individuals linked to the ruling establishment, deprives Zimbabwe of an estimated 36 tonnes of...

The Uganda Government presented in the Parliament last week a bill that seeks a life sentence for individuals found guilty...

A new law in Bolivia attempting to curb the nation’s high rates of gender-based violence foresees up to 20 years prison...

Spanish police said they arrested eight suspects and seized for the first time three underwater drones especially designed...

The West African nation of Liberia is entering a period of accelerating vulnerability, threatening to create conditions for...

The notorious Russian mercenary group PMC Wagner, or the Wagner Group, has started recruiting prisoners from the St....

Dozens were arrested and hundreds of illegally trafficked weapons recovered in a cross border operation aimed at clamping...

The government of the West African nation of Gambia on Friday revoked with immediate effect all timber export licenses and...

The Sahel, the arid plains of North Africa wedged between the Sahara desert and the dense jungles farther south, has long...

Nigeria’s Customs Service seized 2,820 donkey skins worth US$116,000, which were to be smuggled out of the country –...