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n this Oct.8, 2014 file photo, France's Vincent Bollore, head of the Bollore Group, sits in a customized Autolib electric car in Paris. French billionaire Vincent Bollore has been detained for questioning in an investigation into alleged corruption in lucrative port deals in Africa. French newspaper Le Monde says the investigation focuses on suspicions around port deals in 2010 in Lome, the capital of the West African nation of Togo, and Conakry in Guinea.

A French billionaire is being investigated for bribing African officials for lucrative contracts

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with South African President Jacob Zuma in Benaulim, in the western state of Goa, India, October 15, 2016. Sputnik/Kremlin/Alexei Druzhinin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. - S1BEUHDAGPAB

FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT

How two South African women stopped Zuma and Putin’s $76 billion Russian nuclear deal

A gambler uses his cell phone to launch the Sportpesa online betting link, along the streets of Nairobi

DON'T BET ON IT

There’s a troubling relationship between the rise in online betting and mobile money’s growth

A senior with "Infinite Possibilities" written on her cap waits to graduate during Commencement at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S., May 21, 2017

SCHOOLED

African immigrants in the US are better educated than in Europe

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