Africa

Alongside other forms of cybercrime, romance scams have been on the rise since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and have...

An international foundation dedicated to the fight against illicit wildlife trade said on Tuesday that it hopes the case of...

High demand for West Africa’s rosewood timber, specifically from Chinese markets, has spawned corruption across the region’s...

The overwhelming majority of countries which had the highest rates of criminality in 2021 are those in the midst of armed...

Heavily armed police detained seven Somali journalists, accused them of being terrorists and threatened with death for their...

An eight-week-long global operation codenamed Golden Strike resulted in arrests and seizures across Asia and Africa,...

The U.S. and Nigeria signed an agreement last week to stem the flow of illegally trafficked cultural material out of the...

The U.S. returned the looted Roman-era “Veiled Head of a Female” and a 7th century B.C. golden bowl and ivory plaque to...

As Zimbabweans faced the economic consequences of a crashing currency, well-connected businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei...

With the help of Europol, the Spanish National Police dismantled an organized crime network involved in human and drug...

The scourge of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has led to costs upwards of US$1.9 billion a year for the nearly two dozen West...

How deep corruption stretches into the South African government was revealed last week, after South Africa’s Judicial...