Wemba on French smuggling charge
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Congolese singer Papa Wemba is to appear before a French court on people smuggling charges.
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A French court convicted Congolese world  music star Papa Wemba Tuesday of smuggling people into France  but the King of Rhumba Rock walked free because he has already  served four months in jail.
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Chadian authorities will charge  nine French nationals with abducting children and fraud, a  prosecutor said on Monday, after they tried to fly 103 African  children out of the country to live with European families.
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The French commissioner, Jacques Barrot, is facing criticism for failing to disclose a conviction for embezzlement. Mr Barrot, the Transport Commissioner, was given an amnesty for his conviction four years ago.
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South Africa charged two of its  nationals under anti-mercenary laws Monday, three days after  they were freed by a Zimbabwean court hearing accusations they  were plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, their lawyer said.
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France extradites a German ex-minister accused of corruption who had been a fugitive for five years.
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A South African businessman is charged with trafficking nuclear material to Asian countries, in particular Pakistan.
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Two senior French officials of the company whose toxic waste was dumped in Ivory Coast are charged.
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A French court convicted Congolese world music star Papa Wemba Tuesday of smuggling people into France but the King of Rhumba Rock walked free because he has already served four months in jail.
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The French bank said that the fraud had been committed by a trader in charge of hedging on European index futures.
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The trader alleged to have cost French Bank Societe Generale 4.9 billion euros in unauthorised financial deals was being questioned in police custody Saturday, a judicial source said.
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European prisoners held in Chad over alleged child smuggling are to be moved to ensure their safety.
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A junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale has handed himself into the police and is cooperating with their investigation, a prosecution official said on Saturday.
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An Armagh man is charged with money laundering linked to an alleged Â£5m fuel smuggling fraud.
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French prosecutors investigate alleged embezzlement by the leaders of Gabon and Congo.
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Equatorial Guinea is sending its attorney general to South Africa to question Mark Thatcher over allegations that he helped in a failed coup in the west African country, Agence France
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Allegations that French aeronautic group Dassault used middlemen to push aircraft sales in India have raised a media storm here as French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived Wednesday.