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A year ago, Brice Laccruche Alihanga, former chief of staff of President Ali Bongo, was arrested and then jailed in Libreville Central Prison for embezzlement of public funds and money laundering. With him also fell more than a dozen former ministers, deputies and other senior officials. Seized by Laccruche Alihanga's lawyer, the UN working group against arbitrary detention calls for the release of him…

The city of Pinga in northern Kivu was in July and August 2020 the scene of collisions between two factions of the armed group Nduma Defense of Congo-Rénové (NDC-R) led by Guidon Shimiray and Gilbert Bwira. The situation calmed down. There are fewer large-scale attacks on the city, but uncertainty is still present. With our…

Yevgeny Prigozhin, proprietor of the Russian non-public navy firm Wagner Group, can pay 18 million rubles ($ 244,000) every to 2 Russian residents imprisoned in Libya in 2019 on espionage fees and launched final week. Based on an announcement from Prigozhin's firm Harmony, Maxim Shugaley and Samer Hasan Ali Sueyfan have been launched on December 10 after 18 months in jail and have returned to Russia. Prigozhin determined to supply 1 million rubles ($ 13,560) per 30 days or a complete of 18 million…

An armed group has kidnapped almost 400 male college students from a boarding faculty in northern Nigeria, native media reported on Saturday. The assault on the highschool happened within the morning within the city of Kankara within the northwestern province of Katsina alongside the Niger border. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the assault in his house nation, saying safety forces had found the armed group hiding within the forest and an operation had been launched. Katsina State Police…

Greater than 90 folks have been killed in a fierce assault on protesters in opposition to Guinea President Alpha Condes' try to hunt a controversial third time period within the weekend, a number one opposition group mentioned on Monday. The 82-year-old is looking for re-election on October 18, after pushing by way of a brand…

How have hundreds of Mayi-Mayi entered Lubumbashi, and why did no force oppose Bakata Katanga for several hours? The questions abound after the bloody intrusion led by these Katangese separatists, and this while the authorities in Kinshasa are surrounded by silence. For many lush residents, there is a dysfunction in the police hierarchy. The deputy provincial commissioner in charge of the operations and the intelligence service have been out of action for a long time, condemns human rights activist Timothée Mbuya.…

Paul Rusesabagina, the polarizing hero from the hit film "Hotel Rwanda", admitted in a court in Kigali on Friday that he had helped form an armed group, but denied any role in its crimes. Rusesabagina is famous for his portrayal of Don Cheadle in the 2004 film, in which a moderate hutu is shown saving hundreds of lives in a luxury hotel during the 1994 genocide, leaving about 800,000, mostly Tutsi, dead. However, a more complex picture has emerged since he appeared in Kigali under arrest under mysterious circumstances…