President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea said a war was being organised against his regime, days after a government official announced the discovery of a “destabilisation attempt”. A “war” is being prepared “because they say I have spent a lot of time in power,” the president said on Saturday, without saying who he was referring to. Neighbouring Cameroon had …

Moroccan royal gendarmerie has dismantled an organized criminal group involved in irregular emigration to Europe through Libya, and in other serious crimes, including kidnapping and money laundering. Safaa Kasraoui reports. The authorities were after the gang since September 2017, following the arrest of two masterminds of irregular emigration in Beni Mellal, a city located in central Morocco. The two criminals …

There have been angry protests in Democratic Republic of Congo, calling for President Joseph Kabila’s resignation. Kabila has been in power since 2001. His second term in office officially ended in December 2016, but he is still there – refusing to leave. The UN Secretary-General has now waded into the crisis following deadly clashes in the capital, Kinshasa. Congolese protested …