President John Dramani Mahama has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to comply with constitutional requirements by declaring their assets by 15 July, or face ...

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The editors and directors of one of Uganda's most popular tabloid newspapers have been detained over what authorities called a fake news story about a political plot implicating President Yoweri ...

MPLA veteran Ambrósio Lukoki is calling for the prosecution of former President Eduardo dos Santos. The East African reports that Lukoki, who currently serves as the Angolan ambassador to Tanzania, ...

Global bank HSBC is shutting accounts associated with the Gupta family as it conducts a wide-ranging review of any possible involvement in suspicious transactions, with the assistance of external ...

The illicit alcohol industry is booming in SA, and consumers need to be especially careful when buying liquor since they could end up with an illegal product without even realising it. That’s ...

A Tunis court has sentenced exiled former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to 22 years in prison for offences related to ‘terrorism’, Tunisian media reported on Saturday. According to the New ...

Starlink users in SA will have their satellite internet services terminated at the end of the month due to violation of its terms and conditions, the company has warned. Starlink has notified local ...

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When the High Court in eSwatini found prominent South African investment analyst Allan Gray’s Sandy McGregor unfit for the office of executor of his mother-in-law’s considerable estate, implementation ...

Drug cartels based in Mexico are accused of fuelling the fentanyl overdose crisis in the US. Now the names of notorious cartels are starting to crop up in South African cases. Evidence suggests that ...

The Constitutional Court has blocked traditional leaders in the Limpopo Province from taxing their communities, saying the Constitution is clear that ‘unelected, non-legislative’ bodies cannot have ...