Criminality and corruption Bound

Burkina Faso's government on Thursday lashed calls on social media to attack the country's Fulani minority, describing them as a campaign for "ethnic cleansing" similar to the Rwanda genocide. Audio postings, mainly disseminated on WhatsApp, have urged "native"...

Chad is an oil-rich but deeply poor African nation that has become a key regional ally of the West in the fight against jihadists. On Monday its military government and opposition groups signed a deal for talks aimed at staging elections later this year. Some key...

Morocco's top court has given a preliminary endorsement over the extradition to the US of a French national suspected of cybercrimes, judicial sources said on Monday. A document seen by AFP said the court gave a "favourable opinion" on the extradition of Sebastien...

An Algerian lawmaker has been jailed for three years for trying to help his daughter cheat on a school maths exam, the APS state news agency said Tuesday. A local police chief, a school principal and another person were handed the same sentence in a ruling late...