Africa

Forty minutes before midnight on Wednesday, the former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, handed himself in to police...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday announced 17 new additions to its “Press Freedom Predators” series — a gallery...

A court in Togo issued extensive prison sentences to eight maritime pirates on Monday for the attempted hijacking of a...

Once the most pirate-infested region on the planet, the waters off the coast of Somalia are now home to a different maritime...

Corruption and discrimination often go hand in hand, causing a “double harm,” a joint study by Transparency International...

Angolan authorities should drop criminal defamation charges against anti-corruption journalists Coque Mukuta and Escrivão...

The NSO Group, the Israeli spyware firm whose products have been implicated in everything from the murder of Saudi...

Last week, just as Egyptian authorities were celebrating the return of more than 100 artifacts which had been smuggled to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a new gold rush in Central Africa, with organized groups cashing in on the surge in the...

A grassroots organization in Burkina Faso filed a complaint against the government Tuesday, citing an OCCRP investigation...

South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered Jacob Zuma, the country’s former president, to turn himself in to authorities by...

The complete breakdown of law and order in the Democratic Republic of the Congo two decades ago has given birth to local...