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Gambian Vice President resigns as Jammeh remains defiant

In what is clearly the biggest indication that the President of The Gambia, Yayha Jammeh, has lost control of his government, the country’...

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Zimbabwe police use teargas, water cannon on protesters

Zimbabwean police used teargas, water cannon and batons on Wednesday to disperse opposition youths who were demonstrating in the capital a...

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Man in trouble for naming dog 'Buhari' after Nigeria's president

A 30-year-old trader based in the Sango-Ota area of Ogun State, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, has been arrested by the State Police Command for ...

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Kenya: Police arrest key member of militant group plotting attacks

Kenyan police have arrested a suspected key member of an Islamist militant group that was plotting attacks similar to one in 2013 on the W...

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Egypt: Policeman kills a man, wounds another, over cup of tea

An Egyptian policeman shot two people, killing one of them, on Tuesday after an argument in the street in Cairo, security sources said, t...

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Cameroon police detain 60 regime opponents

Police in Cameroon on Tuesday detained around 60 members of the opposition who had gathered in Yaounde to protest any attempts to change t...

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Malawi: Witchdoctors and soothsayers fuel sexual offences in Malawi – police

Fooled by witchdoctors and sangomas that the easiest way to attain wealth is through incest and defilement, some men in Malawi are learnin...

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Egypt: Police shoot dead gang abducting foreigners

Egyptian security forces on Thursday in Cairo shot dead members of a criminal gang that specialised in abducting foreigners by posing as p...

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South Africa: Police launch graft probe into Zuma's son, Guptas

South Africa has launched a corruption probe into President Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane and the Guptas, a family of businessmen accused...

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South Africa: Limpopo police offer R200,000 reward for info on killer who cut woman in half

Limpopo police have offered a reward of up to R200,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who murdered and cut...

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Homeless Man Shot Dead By Police Was 'Reaching For Officer's Gun', Claims LAPD Chief

The authorities in Los Angeles tonight defended three police officers involved in the killing of a homeless man on Skid Row on Sunday. P...

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Suspected Militants Stab Tunisian Policeman To Death

Suspected Islamist militants captured and killed a Tunisian police officer, stabbing him and slashing his throat as he travelled home off-du...

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Egypt Arrests 33 For Debauchery

Thirty-three men have been arrested in a night-time police raid on a Cairo bathhouse for alleged "debauchery", a security official...

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Eric Garner Choke-hold Cop Sued In Prior Misconduct Cases

The white New York City police officer whose choke hold led to the death of an unarmed black man has been sued three times for allegedly vio...

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Egypt Sentences 188 To Death For Killing 11 Police Officers

An Egyptian court on Tuesday condemned 188 people to death for a deadly attack on police after security forces dispersed sit-ins by supporte...

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Streets Of US County Ferguson Quiet After Two Nights Of Racial Unrest

The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, were mostly quiet on Wednesday after two nights of racially charged unrest following a U.S. grand jury de...

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Cleveland Police Shoot Dead 12-Year-Old Boy Holding Fake 'Airsoft' Gun

A 12-year-old boy who was shot twice by police after grabbing what turned out to be a replica gun died from his wounds on Sunday, a day afte...

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SOUTH AFRICA: Robbers Disarm Cops, Lock Them In Van

Three men were arrested after they allegedly disarmed two police officers and locked them in the back of their police van in Rabie Ridge, no...

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CAUGHT IN ACTION: See The Tanzanian Police Officers Fired For Kissing At Work

When is it OK to kiss a colleague? Two Tanzanian police officers, whose kiss was widely shared on social media, have prompted a discussion a...

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ALARMING!!: SA Murder Rate 5 Times Higher Than Global Average

South Africa's crime statistics have been released. The number of murders increased by 800 in the past financial year, national police c...

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