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More than 80 people have died, including one baby, after a canoe was found adrift at sea near the Canary Islands.

“Jensen Robles”, aka Rene Schwarze, has been arrested in Gambia. Gambia’s Police Force arrested “Muhammed Reni”, aka Muhammed Rainey, earlier this week. Reni was detained on suspicion of counterfeiting currency.

The council of London’s Southwark borough has repossessed a subsidized flat from Fatima Bio, Sierra Leone’s first lady, following a 12-month investigation launched after OCCRP and The Times last year revealed she had kept her tenancy at the property even after moving to the presidential palace in her home country.

Wearing a blue suit and rectangular glasses perched on his nose, Mohammad Bazzi appears uneasy.

Alhaji Mamadi Kurang, a former official in Gambia’s financial crimes commission, states he has endured years of threats, legal pressure, and professional isolation for revealing alleged wrongdoing by investigators assigned to probe the multibillion-dollar corruption of former President Yahya Jammeh.

Since Julius Maada Bio assumed the presidency of Sierra Leone in April 2018, his wife, Fatima Bio, and her close relatives have acquired luxury properties in Gambia.

A sweeping Interpol-led operation targeting illegal mining in West Africa has led to the arrest of 200 people and the seizure of substances worth $100,000.

While the beautiful beaches and palm trees are aplenty, it’s the local young men that elderly British tourists are seemingly on the hunt for when they travel to Gambia on holiday

The Gambia team's flight from Banjul to Abidjan for the Africa Cup of Nations experienced serious difficulties and was forced to turn around due to a lack of oxygen onboard