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Egypt arrests tax authority chief on charges of receiving bribes

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CAIRO (Reuters) – The head of Egypt’s tax authority, Abdul Azim Hussein, has been arrested on charges of receiving bribes, the public prosecutors’ office said on Saturday. “It was proved through recorded phone calls and meetings that he received money and gifts as bribes”, it added in a statement. The statement gave no details but the state news agency MENA… Read More
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South African photographer kidnapped in Syria back home – source

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ANKARA (Reuters) – A South African photojournalist kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State three years ago returned home on Thursday with the help of Turkey’s intelligence agency, a security source in Ankara said. Shiraaz Mohamed was captured in January 2017 after travelling to document the suffering of Syrians under war, according to South African charity Gift of the Givers. The… Read More
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Armed assailants kill three in Kenya’s Lamu county

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Armed assailants on Thursday killed three people and injured two others in Kenya’s Lamu county, a coastal region near the border with Somalia, police said. The county is part of a large swath of territory where Islamist group al Shabaab carries out gun and bomb attacks to pressure Kenya into withdrawing its forces from Somalia. A Kenyan… Read More
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Greece says eight abducted as tanker stormed off Cameroon

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Eight people were abducted and one person injured during an armed raid overnight on a Greek-registered tanker anchored off Cameroon, Greek authorities said on Tuesday. Greece’s shipping ministry said the ‘Happy Lady’ tanker was two nautical miles off the port of Limboh in Cameroon when it was stormed by individuals who were armed. Five Greeks, two people… Read More
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Algeria names new prime minister

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ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and a looming economic challenge. Abdelaziz Djerad, 65, served in the administration of a previous president in the 1990s, but was sidelined by president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was ousted in April… Read More
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Namibian ex-ministers enmeshed in fish scandal in jail for New Year

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WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Two former ministers and four others accused of taking bribes to offer fishing rights in Namibia’s biggest corruption scandal will see in the New Year from custody after a court dismissed their urgent release application on Friday. The six are accused of conspiring to receive 100 million Namibian dollars ($6.8 million) in kickbacks from subsidiaries of Iceland’s… Read More
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Thirty-five civilians killed in Burkina Faso after army repels militant attack

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso insurgents killed 35 mostly female civilians on Tuesday after attacking a military outpost in northern Soum Province, and about 87 militants and local security forces were killed in the clash, authorities said. President Roch Marc Kabore declared two days of national mourning in the west African country in response to the attack. The incident followed… Read More
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Somali militants claim responsibility for attack outside hotel: spokesman

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack outside a hotel in the town of Galkayo, in the country’s Mudug region, which killed at least seven civilians, their spokesman told Reuters. “We are behind the Galkayo  blast, it was a martyrdom suicide car bomber that targeted military officials who had a meeting in that place. We killed… Read More