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YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon’s parliament granted special status on Friday to two English-speaking regions to try to calm a separatist insurgency that has killed 2,000 people, but the separatists said only independence would satisfy them. The law, passed in a special session of parliament, says the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions “benefit from a special status founded on their linguistic… Read More

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzanian police said on Friday they had arrested a human rights activist in the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam hours after the rights group that employs him said he was snatched off the street by men in civilian clothes. Police arrested activist Tito Magoti with three other unnamed people on Friday on “various allegations”,… Read More

MBABANE (Reuters) – Police in eSwatini arrested the head of the southern African country’s largest opposition party and several other politicians and activists in raids on their houses on Friday, their parties said. The raids took place as people’s anger against King Mswati III, an absolute monarch, has swelled in the past year. Police Commissioner William Dlamini told reporters the… Read More

BANGUI (Reuters) – Four workers for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) have been detained in Central African Republic for nearly a week following a raid by security forces on an MSF hospital in the capital Bangui, the aid group said on Friday. It said one international and three local employees were taken into custody without any explanation on Dec.… Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Water downstream of a Rio Tinto mine in southern Madagascar contains high concentrations of uranium and lead, potentially endangering local residents who depend on a nearby lake and river for drinking water, a study released on Friday found. Lead, when ingested, can impede the mental and physical development of children, while uranium can cause kidney damage. The… Read More

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s former attorney general was detained by the country’s financial crimes agency upon his return home on Thursday, the commission said in a statement, as part of an investigation into one of the oil industry’s biggest suspected corruption scandals. Mohammed Adoke was arrested by Interpol in November after travelling to Dubai for a medical appointment. He voluntarily… Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Angola has recovered more than $5 billion stolen from state coffers so far this year, both at home and from abroad, Justice Minister Francisco Queiroz said on Monday, amid a two-year crackdown on corruption. The money, including $3 billion stolen from the sovereign wealth fund, had been siphoned off by corruption and money-laundering, state news agency ANGOP… Read More

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s foreign ministry said on Monday that 20 of its nationals had been kidnapped from an oil tanker in West African waters. “Our Mission in Abuja has taken up the matter with the Nigerian authorities, as also with the authorities of the neighbouring countries,” the ministry said in a statement. It said the vessel was the… Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African delegation will meet officials in the United Arab Emirates to discuss why the country has not ratified an extradition treaty, South Africa said on Monday, as it tries to investigate a case of alleged influence-peddling. The treaty, ratified by South Africa in November 2018, could help the country extradite three Indian-born brothers – Atul,… Read More

LAGOS (Reuters) – An armed group that kidnapped humanitarian workers in northeastern Nigeria five months ago has claimed it killed four hostages, international aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Friday. Six people were abducted in July near the town of Damasak, in the state of Borno, where Islamist insurgents operate. Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), which split… Read More