By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 15 April 2008 Police in Malaysia have stopped a speech by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to thousands of supporters in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, late Monday. Anwar is making a political comeback that is challenging the count...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 17 March 2008 Police in Ghana have arrested Liberian refugees who were leading protests at a camp outside the capital Accra. The refugees had refused to stop their month-long demonstration against a U.N.-funded repatriation pr...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 20 February 2008 Egyptian police have arrested more than 70 members of the Muslim Brotherhood early Thursday, the latest in a wave of arrests that the banned Islamist group says is connected to upcoming local elections. VO...
By Deborah Block Baghdad 24 January 2008 In Iraq, a top police chief was killed in the northern city of Mosul Thursday after a suicide bomber struck officials touring the site of a previous blast. Two other police officers were killed and one U.S. an...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 23 January 2008 Zimbabwe police clamped down hard on protesters, beating them as they made their way to a rally, following the brief detention of the founding president of the country's political opposition. As Pet...
By Scott Bobb Jerusalem 12 January 2008 In South Africa, the national head of the police has been put on leave following an announcement by an independent investigating unit that he is to be charged with corruption. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Joha...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 14 December 2007 Police in Eastern Sierra Leone have opened fire to disperse a group of demonstrators in the kimberlite mining town of Koidu, where local residents say they have not been compensated for environmental damages fr...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 27 November 2007 French police have clashed with youths, outside Paris, in a second night of violence reminiscent of 2005, when rioting in immigrant-heavy suburbs near the French capital spread across the country. Lisa Bryant has...
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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 15 November 2007 Nigerian police say they have killed 785 suspected armed robbers and lost 62 of their own officers in the last three months. Human rights groups have repeatedly accused Nigerian police and security forces of ki...