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25 People Killed In Intercommunal Clashes In Central Chad

December 15, 2020 6:42 am

Intercommunal violence arising from a land dispute has left about 25 people dead in central Chad, authorities said on Monday.

The incident took place in the Chadian province of Batha over the weekend, Oumar Toubaye Sargoulo, a local administrative official say.

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He said: ‘On Saturday, we unfortunately lost 25 of our compatriots in a conflict linked to a dispute between two communities over a land dispute in Achiguek locality of Assinet sub-prefecture.’ ‘Security forces were deployed in the town to restore order. The minister of territorial administration, Gen. Mahamat Ismaël

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South Africa Set To Prosecute Matodzi, 7 Others For Biggest Bank Robbery

June 18, 2020 7:27 am

South African authorities would dock today eight people suspected of illegally siphoning 2.3 billion rand ($133.87 million) from small lender VBS Mutual Bank.

The bank collapsed in 2018 because of the corruption scandal.

According to an online medium, amabhungane.org, the eight suspects were arrested in a coordinated multi-province search and seizure operation by the Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)

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Those arrested include the bank’s former chairperson, Tshifhiwa Matodzi, chief executive, Andile Ramavhunga, treasurer, Phophi Mukhodobwane, and chief financial officer, Philip Truter.

Heavily compromised outsiders were also arrested.

VBS Mutual Board

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Authorities To investigate Soyombo’s Ikoyi Prison Stories

October 23, 2019 5:48 am

Nigerian Correctional Service said it has set up a “high powered panel” to investigate the allegations in an investigative report made by undercover journalist Fisayo Soyombo.

The first installment of the three-part investigation by Soyombo exposed how Nigerian policemen “pervert the course of justice in their quest for ill-gotten money”.

In the second part of the investigation published on Monday by The Cable exposed “how the courts short-change the law, and the prisons are themselves a cesspool of the exact reasons for which they hold inmates.”

Soyombo spent eight days as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track …

Authorities Plan To Arrest Soyombo Over Investigations

October 22, 2019 6:15 am

A journalist, Fisayo Soyombo whose undercover stories exposed the depth of corruption in Nigerian police cells and prison may be arrested by the Nigerian authorities.

The first instalment of the three-part investigation by Fisayo Soyombo, a former editor of The Cable and a contributor to Al Jazeera, detailed how Nigerian policemen “pervert the course of justice in their quest for ill-gotten money”.

In the second part of the investigation published on Monday by The Cable, he exposed “how the courts short-change the law, and the prisons are themselves a cesspool of the exact reasons for which they hold inmates.”

During …