Zambia has a record of peaceful transfers of power. Since the return to multiparty democracy in 1991, presidential transitions have occurred through the ballot box. It is unclear if the opposition will challenge the election result. Mundubile had earlier alleged there had been discrepancies between polling-station results and those officially announced and claimed military involvement…
Zambia’s electoral commission has resumed the counting of votes from Thursday’s presidential, parliamentary and local elections after it was halted over alleged attacks on polling staff. The authority paused the process nationwide expressing concern about reports of violence that had “resulted in the theft of marked ballot papers in ballot boxes”. President Hakainde Hichilema is…
The recent wave of unprecedented cocaine seizures across West Africa is no longer a series of isolated criminal incidents. Instead, the arrests, investigations, and intelligence emerging from multiple jurisdictions increasingly point to a sophisticated transnational narcotics network stretching from Latin America through West Africa into Europe. At the center of this network is Dutch fugitive…
Nigeria’s president has ordered a corruption investigation into allegations that a fictitious government agency was set up within his own office, complete with public funding worth $950,000 (£700,000). According to the presidency, the letter from the president’s chief of staff creating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) had been forged. The police have launched…
Kinshasa takes Kigali to UN’s top court over 30 years of alleged massacres, sexual violence, and forced displacement. Published On 26 Jun 202626 Jun 2026 The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is taking Rwanda to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its role in three decades of alleged “abuses” in the country’s east….
The U.S. military conducted another strike in the Caribbean on Sunday against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the region, killing two people and leaving six survivors, the Defense Department said, amid an ongoing campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack — which now number more than 60 — brings the number…
A Los Angeles County court granted pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter a temporary restraining order Monday against a man she alleges has been stalking her and tried to get into her home. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The court prohibited William Applegate, 31, from being within…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack of the week and putting the total death toll at more than 200. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free…
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s inspector general said Monday that it’s investigating U.S. Southern Command over its targeting of alleged drug-smuggling boats in the military’s campaign against drug cartels, which some critics have argued is illegal. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Southern Command has targeted…
The U.S. military’s latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed two men Friday while leaving one survivor. Video posted on social media by U.S. Southern Command shows a black, boat-shaped image before what appears to be an explosion, followed by a column of fire rising from the ocean. Southern…
