By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Bamada.net
Kévin Tessier, suspected of the racist shooting on 23 October in Trappes and La Verrière, has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has requested that he be remanded in custody, BFMTV reports, adding that the attack left one person dead and four seriously injured.
An autopsy on 17-year-old Aminata Sy concluded that she died by strangulation, contradicting the account of a fall given by the main suspect, Karamo Cissé Ndiaye. The 35-year-old is facing a murder investigation and is due to be brought before the Saint-Louis public prosecutor’s office, according to newspaper Libération.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: Dakaractu ·
Four police officers and a civilian have been arrested in DR Congo on suspicion of taking part in the armed robbery of a vehicle belonging to the financial company SOFICOM in Kutu, Maï-Ndombe province. The 24 October attack left two people dead, a soldier and a police officer; the suspects were transferred to Bandundu-ville, Umuseke reports, citing a journalist from Radiotélévision Bandundu Développement.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Umuseke ·
An attack by the Convention for the Popular Revolution on a position of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Bule-centre, in Djugu territory, Ituri, has left four people dead: one soldier and three fighters. Seven militiamen were seriously wounded and the army recovered weapons, ammunition and radios after the clashes on 29 October 2026, according to security sources cited by Kivu Morning Post.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Kivu Morning Post ·
Andrea Johnson, former head of South Africa’s anti-corruption directorate, and Feroz Khan, a former criminal intelligence general, were arrested on 30 October 2026 over alleged obstruction of justice, reports the Mail & Guardian. The charges relate to Johnson’s alleged transmission of a confidential police docket to Khan in 2018. Sowetan says Johnson was arrested at around 5am and is due to appear in Pretoria.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Source: Mail & Guardian ·
Chinese Communist Party targets informal rules that foster corruptionThe Chinese Communist Party wants to tackle more vigorously the informal rules that foster corruption and weaken discipline among its cadres. A resolution adopted at the end of the Central Committee’s fifth plenary session provides, among other things, for greater transparency within the party, according to officials quoted by Expresso das Ilhas.
Kenyan court orders Twaha Mwaipaya to be produced before itKenya’s High Court orders police to produce missing Tanzanian activist Twaha Mwaipaya before it on 2 November, alive or dead. Authorities must also produce the detention warrant and justify his continued detention, following a habeas corpus petition by VOCAL Africa, according to Kenyans.co.ke.The week in Africa
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