Day: April 13, 2022

Swiss to Unfreeze $430M as Egypt Money Laundering Probe Ends

Swiss prosecutors will not file any charges after concluding a decade-long investigation into alleged money laundering and organized crime linked to late former President Hosni Mubarak’s circles in Egypt, and will release some 400 million Swiss francs …

7 Police Officers, 4 Soldiers Die in Niger Attacks

Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country’s borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said Wednesday.Niger’s interior ministry said “unidentified armed bandits” attacked the …

Journalists Arrested While Covering Prison Scuffle in Somaliland

Police in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region arrested at least seven journalists Wednesday, including a VOA reporter, as they covered a prison scuffle in the region’s capital, Hargeisa.VOA Somali stringer Sagal Mustafe Hassan was freed after a short…