NAIROBI, March 12 (Reuters) – A man was arrested with more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage at Nairobi’s main airport this week amid a rise in cases of smuggling of the insects in Kenya. Chinese national Zhang Kequn, 27, was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Tuesday while he was trying...

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – Ghana intends to propose a United Nations resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime in the history of humankind” and calling for reparations, and expects broad support despite resistance in Europe. The West African nation, a prominent advocate of reparations on the continent, plans to table the proposal at...

DAKAR, March 12 (Reuters) – Senegal’s National Assembly late on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts to 10 years and criminalising any efforts to promote homosexuality. The law – passed by 135 votes to zero, with three abstentions – fulfils a campaign promise of the government that...