Zimbabwe police arrest British businessman
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Zimbabwean police arrested a British businessman, Nicholas van Hoogstraten, after finding a large quantity of foreign currency and pornographic material in his possession, state media reported Saturday.
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Hundreds more business executives and store managers have been arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a crackdown on violations of a government-ordered price freeze, police said Tuesday.
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The mayor of Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, is arrested on charges of theft by a public servant.
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A top aide of Bangladesh's ex-PM Khaleda Zia is arrested for trying to lead a street protest, police say.
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - The son of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, was arrested Wednesday by South African police and charged with illegally helping to finance a failed coup in March against Equatorial Guinea&#39;s authoritarian
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Zimbabwe police said more than 200 opposition activists and officials arrested on Saturday were suspects in recent petrol bomb attacks on police stations, shops and some government supporters.
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Police said they arrested the chief executive of Beijing-backed China Aviation Oil&#39;s subsidiary in Singapore on Wednesday, following the company&#39;s announcement last week of massive trading losses.
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A man was arrested in the secure area outside the Prime Minister's residence in Downing Street, police say.
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South African police moved suddenly this week to arrest the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher because they were worried he was about to abscond.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 49 others, who suffered injuries in police custody, were detained in hospital for the night on Tuesday for treatment, their lawyer and a senior party official said.
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Police arrested dozens of people Sunday as they used tear gas and water cannons to break up a rally where Zimbabwe's main opposition leader planned to launch a presidential campaign, a spokesman for the opposition party said.
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Police in Sierra Leone have arrested a Briton who tried to board a flight to Europe with 2.2 lb of cocaine hidden down his trousers, a senior officer said on Tuesday.
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Armed police broke up a prayer meeting planned to protest government policies on Sunday, arresting Zimbabwe's country's main opposition leader and dozens of others, witnesses said.
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South African police arrested former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher&#39;s son Mark Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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Police in emergency-ruled Bangladesh on Monday arrested former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the latest high-profile figure to be hauled in as part of a massive anti-corruption campaign.
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EBay said Saturday that an executive with its India subsidiary Baazee.com was arrested while assisting New Delhi police in an anti-pornography investigation.
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The son of former British Prime  Minister Margaret Thatcher was arrested in South Africa on  Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a mercenary plot  against the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.