By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Monitor
Ugandan security forces have arrested Moses Mujurizi, accused of killing and eating 38 people between 2010 and 2025 in the districts of Masaka, Ibanda and Kazo. Chief of Defence Forces General Muhoozi announced the arrest on Monday on social media platform X and said the man would be tried in public.
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested 14 Chinese nationals and one Nigerian at four illegal lithium-processing plants in Ogere, Ogun State. Investigators seized lithium ore, 18 phones, four laptops and a truck, Punch reports, with prosecutions expected after the investigation.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Punch ·
Jordanian authorities have arrested three men after an attack on a church that killed nine people during a funeral procession in Hammoud, in the west of the country. Injured in an exchange of fire with security forces, the suspects are due to appear before the courts, according to France 24.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Source: France 24 ·
Eugene de Kock, a former head of a South African apartheid death squad, testified at 77 before the commission investigating crimes that went unpunished. Convicted of murders and torture, he spent nearly 20 years in prison, RFI reports.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Source: RFI ·
About 800 people, according to police, gathered at Marseille’s Vieux-Port on Monday evening to denounce racism after a deadly shooting near Paris. Organisers estimated turnout at more than 1,000 people, reports Africanews.
🇫🇷 France · Source: Africanews ·
Jordan strikes Syria after church attackJordan has struck positions described as terrorist in southern Syria, killing at least six people, including three children and a woman, according to Syrian authorities. The response follows an attack on a Jordanian church that killed nine, AFP reports.
Zogo trial: Eko Eko cites 48 tax documents sent to DanweAt the trial over journalist Martinez Zogo's murder, former DGRE director-general Léopold Maxime Eko Eko said an expert report established that Modeste Mopa had sent 48 confidential documents to Colonel Justin Danwe. He gave the testimony on 26 October 2026 before the Yaoundé military court, according to Camer.The week in Africa
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