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Former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang. (Wikus De Wet/AFP/Getty Images)

Manuel Chang extradited to United States

The former Mozambican finance minister will stand trial in New York for his alleged central role in a debt scandal that triggered a sovereign default

Held to ransom: Empty petrol trucks parked near storage tanks linked to the Colonial Pipeline system. Fuel shortages worsened in the United States after the DarkSide hacker group disrupted the pipeline. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

DarkSide: Following the money in the crypto age

Ransomware is the fastest-growing cryptocurrency-related crime. Known payments to ransomware attackers rose 337% from 2019 to 2020, when they reached over R5.4-billion worth of…

Burundi’s leading independent newspaper Iwacu once asked if Gervais Ndirakobuca wasn’t simply an “untouchable suspect”. (Jennifer Huxta/AFP via Getty Images)

Burundi’s new security minister has a long and bloody past

Gervais Ndirakobuca is under international sanctions for human rights violations — abductions, disappearances, murder, turture — when people protested against the president…

Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing members of the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Phantom-like Mueller holds Washington spellbound

Eighteen months into his investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller has the US capital spellbound

Concern is growing that Somalia is slowly turning into a desert due to the loss of an estimated 8.2 million trees between 2011 and 2017 alone.

‘Morally unfit’ – Former FBI chief blasts Trump in interview

In his memoir, Comey describes Trump as “ego-driven” and a bully, claiming that he forced the former federal prosecutor to pledge allegiance to Trump

‘Empty gesture’: Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been lambasted for a recent ‘incendiary’ statement.

FBI challenges White House over explosive Russia case memo

The Justice Department and the FBI have actively lobbied against its release, which has the potential to taint special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

FBI unlocks San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone, abandons Apple case

Following the news, parties opposed to the case said that the announcement proved the government had an "alternative motive" in the case.

People queue to collect social grants in Jo’burg. Allegations of corruption over a R10-billion social grant tender are being investigated.

More questions over Hulley’s role in R10b social grant tender

Officials differ on whether Michael Hulley, responded to critical questions about a grants tender. Craig McKune reports.

Members of the media gather outside the home of Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales

FBI: Terror plot a very serious case

The three Californian men charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas spent months preparing for a trip to Afghanistan authorities have said.

David Petraeus’s affair with his biographer was deemed a security matter.

Petraeus: Bitten by an FBI ‘bulldog’

Frederick Humphries has lived up to his deadly reputation by setting in motion the investigation that brought down David Petraeus as CIA director.

India charges gunman over Mumbai attacks

Indian police on Wednesday charged a man, who they say is the lone surviving gunman in last year’s Mumbai attacks, with ”waging war” against India.

FBI probes finance giants for fraud

The FBI has confirmed it is probing allegations of fraud by 24 Wall Street firms, without naming investment giants believed to be under investigation.

US accused of holding suspects on prison ships

The United States is operating ”floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal…

Disbanding Scorpions ‘will protect politicians’

The disbanding of the Scorpions will protect corrupt and criminal politicians from prosecution, the deputy director of Public Prosecutions warned on Thursday. The Directorate of…

Sex tape played at R Kelly’s child porn trial

Prosecutors played the sex tape at the centre of R Kelly’s child pornography trial in open court on Tuesday, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B…

Fidentia kingpin seeks freedom in Pretoria court

An alleged kingpin in the Fidentia asset management scandal, Steven Goodwin, launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday to secure his freedom. He asked…

Mbeki’s govt sounds death knell for Scorpions

President Thabo Mbeki’s government has approved the disbanding of the elite Scorpions crime-fighting unit, bowing to pressure from supporters of rival Jacob Zuma who accused it…

‘DC Madam’ hangs herself in mother’s shed

The ”DC Madam,” whose arrest for running a high-end prostitution ring sent sex-scandal tremors through the United States capital, hanged herself on Thursday in a shed at her…

Porn firm sells the Hendrix sex experience

The exploitation of the private lives of celebrities, even dead ones, by the United States entertainment industry is again under the spotlight after a Los Angeles company…

Marilyn Monroe sex film to be kept private

A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for ,5-million, the…