Several key officials at three major South African banks are helping a gold smuggling gang launder millions of dollars of dirty cash in exchange for regular...
An investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed some of Southern Africa’s largest gold-smuggling operations, exposing how these gangs help criminals around the world launder millions of...
An investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit infiltrates rival gangs that control Africa’s gold. Criminal networks turn dirty cash into gold, which is sold around the...
Twenty four Congolese and international civil society organizations have written in an open letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, urging them not to...
By Prof Abdiwahab Abdisamad US meddling in Somalia has gone on for decades. It has included the disastrous “Black Hawk Down” operation of 1993, the US-backed...
A small-scale miner in the East African country of Tanzania, Anselim Kawishe, stumbled upon two giant Tanzanite gemstones worth 2.2 billion Tanzanian shillings, or nearly a...
A Sudanese diplomat who was arrested for raping his 24-year-old neighbor twice has “vanished” after his diplomatic immunity helped him evade the rape charges. Charles Dickens...
Two Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 pilots are said to have fallen asleep mid-flight on their way to Addis Ababa, Bole International airport from Khartoum, Sudan. According...
A 24-year-old woman who was arrested in Rwanda for wearing “shameful” clothing faces up to two years in jail for “public indecency”, prosecutors said Thursday. Liliane...
Kenya had agreed to offer preference to DP World, owned by the government of Dubai and one of the world’s largest port operators, in a deal...
KTN news channel has apologized to President Salva Kiir Mayardit after exiled activists and economist Peter Biar Ajak made remarks in one of its programs accusing...
For Zainab Oladehinde April marks her birthday and in 2021, she decided to travel to Zanzibar a island in Tanzania to celebrate her 23rd birthday miles...
A South African woman who went on a spending spree after erroneously receiving nearly $1m (Sh115,000,000) in her bank account has been found guilty of theft...
(Monitor)-A controversial Italian businesswoman, whose plans to use a government-backed multi-million dollar loan to construct the International Specialised Hospital in Lubowa on Entebbe Road, a project...
The seven month shutdown of Twitter cost the Nigerian economy $26.1bn (N10.72trillion) the Lagos Chamber of Commerce (LCCI) and Industry has said. “In business terms, the...
BISSAU, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Thursday that three people previously arrested by U.S. authorities for drug trafficking were behind...
Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija who was charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has fled the country out of fear for his life, his lawyer...
The International Court of Justice has ordered Uganda to pay $325 million in compensation to its neighbor Congo for violence in a long-running conflict between the...
Uganda Police are wondering how renowned Portuguese gold smuggler Joao Carlos Ramalho Ferreira evaded their dragnet and managed to sneak out of the country after they...
A court in Nairobi on Monday, February 7, released on bond a Kenyan businessman whose real estate development firm defrauded Rwandan property buyers 10 years ago....
