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The national organised crime head of the detective service, Assistant Commissioner Albert Eksteen, was arrested at the department's headquarters in Pretoria on Tuesday for fraud involving about R40 000.

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Five people are reported dead and some 139,000 others have been affected by flooding and waterlogged conditions caused by recent downpours in Ghanaian coastal towns, including the capital Accra, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. The southern districts of Adoagyir, Nsawam, Zongo, and the Odaw Channel have been the worst affected by the flooding, OCHA said.