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Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in “slave markets” in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold. Migrants with skills like painting or tiling would fetch higher prices, the ...

August 2015, I found myself in the beautiful Central African Republic of Rwanda. It was my first time of visiting any other African country other than the one I reside in. As you can imagine I was excited but not only because of the new experience but for the awesome camp I would be participating in for three short weeks. ...

Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil field in Nigeria. It comes after emails were published showing Shell negotiated with Dan Etete, who was later convicted of money laundering in a separate case. Shell and an Italian oil company paid $1.3bn (£1bn) to the Nigerian government for ...

Two adults and a child have been killed in a shooting in a classroom of a primary school in San Bernardino, California, police say. The suspect shot and killed his estranged wife, a teacher, and wounded two children who were behind her, one of whom died of his wounds. He then turned the gun on himself, police said. Police chief ...

The Managing Consultant of Centre for Media Analysis, Dr. Messan Mawugbe, has chastised the Chinese mission in Ghana for questioning the approach of the Ghanaian media in reporting Chinese involvement in illegal mining—otherwise known galamsey. According to him, the claims by the Chinese mission are groundless. The mission in a letter addressed to Ghana’s Lands and Natural Resources Minister complained ...

Videos showing a man being violently removed from a United Airlines flight have provoked an outcry on social media. The footage taken inside the airliner shows a man being violently pulled out of his seat and dragged down the aisle as passengers prepared to take off from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday evening. The airline in question – United – ...

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in “hacking” the US election, Spanish press reports have said. Pyotr Levashov, arrested on 7 April in Barcelona, has now been remanded in custody. A “legal source” also told the AFP news agency that Mr Levashov was the subject of an extradition request by the US. The request is due ...

Consumers of Sprite and Fanta have more to worry about than rotting teeth according to a Lagos High Court judge, who ruled that the Coca-Cola products could be “poisonous.” The court held that high levels of benzoic acid and sunset additives in the popular soft drinks could pose a health risk to consumers when mixed with ascorbic acid, commonly known ...

At least 31 people have died in Egypt after blasts targeted Coptic Christians on Palm Sunday. Six people were killed when an explosion struck outside St Mark’s Coptic Church in Alexandria, according to official sources. Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Church, had been attending mass inside. Twenty-five people had died in an earlier blast at St George’s Coptic ...

Mogadishu – Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland has executed five men who were convicted of murdering two regional officials. Saturday’s executions by firing squad are the latest of several in the region that is battling both extremist group al-Shabaab and fighters linked to the Islamic State group. A military court sentenced the five defendants for the murders in December ...