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Police seize nine kilograms of ‘heroin disguised as sweets’ in…
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A total of 9kg (19lb) of heroin disguised as crackers and sweets has been seized at the main international airport…
Morocco ‘gives death sentence’ for beheading hikers
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A Moroccan court has condemned three suspected jihadists to death for the murder of two Scandinavian women beheaded…
Italian police ‘bust Nigerian mafia gang’
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Italian police have arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob, reports AFP news agency
Ex-Kenya TV star convicted in connection with son’s murder in Australia
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A former Kenyan television presenter who misled the police about the death of her three-year-old son in 2014, has…
South Africa accused over fugitive from Rwanda genocide
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The chief prosecutor of a UN tribunal has accused South Africa of failing to co-operate in the arrest of a fugitive…
Tanzania rules to keep death penalty
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Tanzania’s High Court has ruled that there is not enough evidence to challenge the death penalty, which means that…
South Africa deploys army to gang-hit Cape Town
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Authorities in South Africa have deployed the army to townships in the port city of Cape Town to deal with an…
US imposes travel ban on Cameroon official for wildlife trafficking
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The US has banned the most senior official in Cameroon's paramilitary force, Col Jean Claude Ango Ango and his wife…
Man sentenced to life behind bars for raping wheelchair-bound woman
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De Aar - A 26-year-old man was sentenced for life imprisonment in the De Aar Regional Court this week for raping a…
Nigeria’s president accepts retirement of convicted top judge
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the retirement letter of the chief justice, Walter Onnoghen,…