The arrest of several protesters in Madagascar has increased fears among young people that the military regime that took power last year after huge Gen Z demonstrations will be no better than the government it overthrew. Four Gen Z activists, Herizo Andriamanantena, Miora Rakotomalala, Dina Randrian
Read more: Madagascar arrests deepen Gen Z mistrust of regimeThe South African leftwing politician Julius Malema has been sentenced to five years in prison for firing a rifle in the air at a political rally in 2018. Lawyers for the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, South Africa’s fourth largest political party, immediately appealed, and Malema will rem
Read more: Julius Malema sentenced to five years over 2018 gun firingPA Media The burnt out remains of Hatzola ambulances at the Jewish Community Ambulance service in Golders Green Two men have been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after four Jewish charity-owned ambulances were set on fire in north London. Four Hatzola ambulances were set
Read more: Two Arrests After Hatzola Ambulances Set AlightA woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after spending more than a decade in prison awaiting execution. Lemi Limbu, now in her early 30s, was convicted of the murder of her daughter in 2015. On 4 March, a court in Shinyanga, norther
Read more: Tanzania court quashes death sentence for disabled womanA former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state, a Brussels court has ruled. Étienne Davignon, the only person still alive among 10 Belgians the Lumumba fa
Read more: Belgian court orders elderly diplomat to face Lumumba trialEPA/Shutterstock Four people have been arrested as part of a counter-terrorism investigation relating to Iran, the Metropolitan Police has said. Police arrested one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service. The investigation relates to
Read more: Four arrested in investigation of alleged links to Iran's intelligenceAt least 55 Ghanaians have been killed in Russia’s war with Ukraine after being “lured into battle”, Ghana’s foreign minister has said after a visit to Kyiv in which officials raised the issue of Russian recruitment of African people. Reports of African men being attracted to Russia by promises of j
Read more: Ghana Says 55 Citizens Killed After Being Lured to FightIain Watson Political correspondent Getty Images A pay-off given to Lord Mandelson after he was sacked as ambassador to the US is being reviewed, UK Foreign Office sources have told the BBC. The review was instigated after fresh details emerged about the peer's contact with Jeffrey Epstein and a sep
Read more: Foreign Office reviews Mandelson exit payment amid Epstein filesRichard Wheeler Political reporter Getty Images Officers arrived at one of the addresses linked to Lord Mandelson in central London Two properties linked to Peter Mandelson in Wiltshire and north London have been searched following allegations of misconduct in public office, the Metropolitan Police
Read more: Police search Mandelson-linked properties in Epstein inquiryThe traditional chief of a village in western Nigeria where jihadists massacred residents earlier this week has recounted a night of terror during which the attackers killed two of his sons and kidnapped his wife and three daughters. Umar Bio Salihu, the 53-year-old chief of Woro, a small, Muslim-ma
Read more: Woro Chief: Gunmen Killed My Sons, Abducted FamilyPolice review misconduct claims after files suggest Mandelson sent government information to Epstein Becky Morton, Political reporter and Jack Fenwick, Political correspondent PA Media Lord Mandelson was inducted into the House of Lords in 2008, while serving as a Labour minister Police are reviewin
Read more: Police Review Allegations Mandelson Shared Government Secrets with EpsteinFive South Africans have appeared in court on charges relating to recruitment and fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, amid allegations that 17 South Africans had been tricked on to the frontlines of the conflict. A female suspect was arrested on Thursday on her return to South Africa at OR
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