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Moroccan authorities arrested 12 suspects and were hunting three others after a 17-year-old girl told police she was gang-raped, tortured, and held against her will for two months. Anger erupted in Morocco after news reports last week that the teenager was abducted, brutalised, and forcibly tattooed. The case sparked

Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been arrested at her offices in the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi over alleged corruption. She has been taken to the police’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations for questioning. Kenya’s national prosecutor has confirmed

Police in Nigeria say they arrested 57 men over the weekend on suspicion of being gay as displays of same-sex affection are banned in the West African country. The police raided a hotel in the main commercial city of Lagos where

Theresa May has announced plans to boost Britain’s investment in Africa after Brexit, during her first trip to the continent as prime minister. In a speech in Cape Town, she pledged £4bn in support for African economies, to create jobs for

US President Donald Trump told his aides he never again wanted to meet someone so lifeless as Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, 75, following their meeting at the White House in April, three unnamed sources have told the UK-based Financial Times newspaper.

The State of Israel has appointed H.E. Shani Cooper as the new Ambassador to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Ambassador Cooper replaces H.E. Ami Mehl who ended his term of service in July 2018. Ambassador Cooper comes to Ghana with 12

Pope Francis has refused to respond to claims by a former Vatican diplomat, who has called for him to resign. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano also accused him of covering up allegations of sexual abuse by a US cardinal. The Pope was

The Drug Law Enforcement Unit (DLEU) of the Eastern regional Police Command has destroyed an acre size marijuana farm at Nkurakan, a community in the Yilo Krobo district, an area notorious for the cultivation of cannabis. According to the Public Relations