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By Reuters People smugglers made over $5 billion from the wave of migration into southern Europe last year, a report by international crime-fighting agencies Interpol and Europol said on Tuesday.…

By Reuters Finland tightened restrictions on giving residence permits to asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia on Tuesday, saying it was now largely safe for them to return to…

By Reuters World powers including the United States are ready to consider demands from Libya’s new unity government for exemptions from a U.N. arms embargo to help take control of…

By Reuters Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who had been taken to a court in the country’s remote northeast to face a charge of treason, was on Monday transferred back…

By Reuters Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Monday at stone-throwing crowds protesting in central Nairobi against an election oversight body they say is biased and should…

By Reuters Tanzania has removed more than 10,000 “ghost workers” from its public sector payroll after a nationwide audit found their fraud cost the government over $2 million a month,…

Regional administrations are headed for a clash with the Federal Parliament following what is emerging as the House’s move to clip the powers of the federal state leaders in the…

By Reuters A Congolese general recruited, financed and armed elements of a Ugandan Islamist group to kill civilians while he was in charge of a military operation targeting the rebels,…

By Reuters An Egyptian court sentenced 152 protesters on Saturday to between two and five years in prison each after they demonstrated against a decision to transfer two Red Sea…