The Gulf of Guinea, where a tanker with 17 Georgian sailors aboard has been missing for a week, has in recent years become the epicentre of maritime piracy in Africa. The siphoning of oil from hijacked cargo ships, illegal fishing, trafficking of all kinds: the 5,700-kilometre (3,541-mile) coastal zone stretching from Senegal to Angola is a happ ...
A total of 46 candidates including the incumbent president and his two predecessors are seeking to contest Madagascar's presidential polls at the end of the year, the Constitutional Court said Tuesday. The court will now assess the candidates' eligibility and confirm by Sunday which ones will be allowed to stand in the first round of the electio ...
Former Comoros president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi has been detained and charged in connection with misappropriating funds linked to a vast passport selling scam, his lawyer said Tuesday. A magistrate charged Sambi, in power between 2006 and 2011, with corruption, misappropriation of public funds and complicity in forgery , and ordered his house arr ...
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