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The wife of South Africa's minister of state security, Sheryl Cwele, has been found guilty of drugs trafficking. Mrs Cwele and a Nigerian
accomplice
were
convict
ed of recruiting two women to smuggle drugs. From Johannesburg, Milton Nkosi.Allegations of Mrs Cwele's drug trafficking
surface
d in 2009 after the arrest of a South African woman caught in Brazil with more than 10kg of cocaine worth almost $300,000. The woman is now serving time in a Brazil prison. Cwele's arrest has led to opposition calls for her husband's resignation. The minister was not in court today, and he has had no comments since the conviction of his wife.
The head of Ivory Coast's highest court, Paul Yao N'Dre, has formally confirmed Alassane Ouattara as president. Mr Yao N'Dre was previously considered a
staunch
supporter of the former President Laurent Gbagbo. Last year, he ruled that Mr Gbagbo had won the presidential election, even though the electoral commission had declared Mr Ouattara the winner.
Details of works of art that were looted by Nazi Germany are being listed online for the first time. The directory will be available to the public to help the
rightful
owners recover their long-lost items. John McManus reports.
The directory is the first attempt by experts in the art world to provide a central catalogue of all available evidence relating to works of art which were looted by the Nazis and never returned to their original owners. Thousands of valuable artworks were stolen as German forces advanced across Europe during the 1930s and 40s. The best of those pieces, which included paintings, sculpture and jewellery, were