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A Binance executive who had been detained in Nigeria has escaped custody, the president's adviser on national security said on Monday.

Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan who is Binance's regional manager for Africa, a suspect in the ongoing criminal probe into the activities of Binance in Nigeria escaped from lawful custody on Friday, the security adviser's office said in a statement.

It added that Nigeria's security agencies are working with Interpol for an international arrest warrant on Anjarwalla.

Binance said earlier that it was aware that Anjarwalla, who is the company's regional manager for Africa, was no longer under Nigerian custody and that the company was working with authorities to resolve the issue.

Reuters

More than 280 students and staff members abducted by gunmen from a school in northern Nigeria have been released unharmed, the state's governor office says, days before a deadline to pay a $1.1 million ransom.

At least 93 people have been confirmed dead after last night's attack at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region, according to Russia's investigative committee.

A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants has been found in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said.

Russia has added what it calls the "LGBT movement" to a list of extremist and terrorist organisations, state media said on Friday.

Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu will introduce a three-month ban on ministers and other government officials from going on publicly funded foreign trips.

The head of Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank has told the BBC that customers who withdrew more money than was in their accounts because of a glitch cannot "escape" the law.

Kenya's President William Ruto has signed into law a controversial bill, paving the way for the government to continue collecting a housing levy of 1.5% of a worker's monthly pay.

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped around 100 people, including women and children, in two-weekend attacks in Kaduna state, residents and police said on Monday.

“Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me.

Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case.

Niger’s military government announced that it has ended an accord with the US that allowed military personnel and civilian staff from the Department of Defense to operate in Niger – days after holding high-level talks with US diplomatic and military officials this week.