Zambia opposition leader arrested
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Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata is arrested in connection with an election asset declaration.
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Police arrested the main financier and strategist of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood opposition group Thursday, security and group officials said.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania - Authorities said on Saturday they arrested the alleged ringleader of a string of foiled coup and assassination attempts against Mauritania&#39;s leaders.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labour leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened countrywide strike by oil-industry workers in Africa's largest petroleum exporter, his union said.
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Key opposition figures are arrested in Pakistan, ahead of protests against President Musharraf's re-election.
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Mexican police arrested the symbolic leader of a six-month-long protest movement that took over southern Oaxaca city, hours after he gave a news conference saying he had come to the capital to start talks with the government.
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Egyptian police detained the deputy leader of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, about 10 other prominent members and scores of Brotherhood students in dawn raids on Thursday, Brotherhood and police sources said.
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Zimbabwe police arrested an opposition MP as he tried to flee the country on Thursday to escape a one year jail term for assaulting the justice minister during a parliamentary debate over land seizures.
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Zambia's president, whose policies have helped boost economic growth in the southern African country, consolidated his lead Sunday in the election vote count, as police used tear gas against rioters who stormed an election center to protest the results.
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Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labor leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened nationwide
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The head of the corruption investigation into South African police chief Jackie Selebi is arrested.
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The president of the largest labor union in Nigeria was arrested at gunpoint Saturday just two days before a general strike is due to take place.
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A Zimbabwe opposition MP who assaulted a minister in parliament has been arrested trying to leave the country. A parliamentary committee recommended on Wednesday that Roy Bennett be jailed for a year after
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The leader of Algeria's second largest  Islamic rebel group has been arrested, the Interior Ministry  said Monday, dealing a fresh blow to radical Muslim militants  fighting the secular government.
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The leader of a far-right political party in Britain was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of incitement to racial hatred after he was secretly filmed calling Islam a &quot;vicious, wicked&quot; religion.
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Zimbabwe riot police arrested more than  200 opposition activists and officials on Saturday during a  meeting they were holding at their party headquarters, an  opposition spokesman said.
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Three ex-ministers of  Nepal's king are arrested on suspicion of conspiring to encourage violence in southern Nepal.