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Africa’s crypto winter: arrest of FTX’s boss prompts calls for tighter regulation

At the heart of the Africa’s crypto boom was FTX, an international exchange run by US crypto guru Sam Bankman-Fried, whose collapse in November has sent shockwaves across the continent, along with calls for more regulation. An unknown number of African customers held funds on the Bahamas-based platform, as did numerous African startups. On Tuesday […]

Election Fraud: Malawi leader loses election court challenge

The Constitutional Court in Malawi has rejected an appeal, brought by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi’s electoral commission, to suspend the judgement it made last week annulling May’s presidential election in the southern African nation. Since last week, opposition supporters in Malawi have been celebrating after a panel of five top judges annulled the results […]

Palestine: Officials reject surveillance cameras in Jerusalem

The proposed plan by Jordan’s King Abdullah, welcomed by the Israeli government, to install surveillance cameras in Jerusalem has been rejected by the Palestinians as they fear that it will increase Israel’s control over the area. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that Tel Aviv “has an interest in cameras being deployed everywhere on the […]