JOHANNESBURG/MAPUTO (Reuters) - Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang was denied bail by a South African court on Friday, meaning he will remain in custody for now pending an extradition hearing over charges relating to $2 billion in fraudulent loans.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Five people including the ex-head of Mozambique's intelligence services and the chairman of three firms linked to the country's $2 billion debt scandal have been arrested in Mozambique, a police source said on Friday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities thwarted an attempt to target security forces with a home made bomb in Cairo's western Giza district on Friday, the interior ministry said.
GENEVA/JUBA (Reuters) - Rape and sexual violence against women and girls as young as eight is still widespread in northern South Sudan despite the signing of a peace deal to end the civil war in September 2018, according to a U.N. investigation published on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's former ambassador to Iran, Yusuf Saloojee, was arrested on Thursday over allegations of corruption related to telecoms giant MTN's cell phone operating licence in Iran, South African police said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has provisionally withdrawn an arrest warrant for Ajay Gupta, a businessman and friend of former president Jacob Zuma, in a corruption case, police said.
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Five people including the ex-head of Mozambique's intelligence services and the chairman of three firms linked to the country's $2 billion debt scandal have been arrested in Mozambique, a police source said on Friday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A tribunal on Friday charged Nigeria's suspended chief judge for breaching asset declaration rules but adjourned his trial until after Saturday's presidential elections.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean authorities are expected to start retrieving trapped illegal gold miners on Friday but none are expected to have survived flooding in the shafts and the number of casualties could be about 50, state media reported.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A group of 159 Eritrean refugees were flown on Wednesday from the Libyan capital Tripoli to Niger for resettlement, the United Nations said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. military denied on Thursday taking part in a raid on an al Qaeda site in the Libyan city of Ubari, contradicting a statement by a Libyan official.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The chief executive officer of telecoms group MTN Uganda, a unit of South Africa's MTN Group, has been deported from the East African country over national security concerns, Ugandan police said on Friday.
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