Africa

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 –...

Africa’s tramadol epidemic, particularly prevalent in West and Central Africa, keeps gaining momentum – according to the UN...

European countries have recently resumed imports of phosphate — a key ingredient in fertilizer — from Syria. The trade...

South Africa, the world’s largest chrome producer, loses around 10% of its annual production to illegal mining which has...

A subsidiary of the Swiss commodities giant Glencore admitted it paid millions of dollars in bribes to African officials to...

The police in southeast Nigeria rescued 35 girls aged 14 to 17 who were exploited for prostitution and ‘baby harvesting’ in...