June 05, 2015 - Page 2

The highest levels of South African government approved a $10 million dollar payment that US investigators suspect was a bribe to get the 2010 World Cup, media reports said Friday. Then president

Thousands of students rioted Friday in Congo’s capital Brazzaville, attacking schools and the education ministry after authorities cancelled the final day of end-of-year exams over alleged “massive fraud”. Students in one area

The head of Mali’s main Tuareg-led rebel groups said on Friday that his movement will sign a final deal to end the conflict in the west African nation on June 20. The

Police in Burundi on Friday shot dead a protester in the capital amid renewed demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza, witnesses and a local official said. Residents in Bujumbura’s Musaga district, which as

The UN rights chief on Friday denounced rights abuses by both Boko Haram Islamists and the Nigerian military and asked the country’s new president to punish offenders. “Civilians in northeast Nigeria have

The UN Security Council will on Friday discuss an upsurge in fighting in east Ukraine that rattled the official truce. Fighting that killed nearly 30 people including a small child over the

The OPEC oil producers’ cartel was set Friday to leave its output unchanged despite oversupply and a fresh drop in crude prices, as it seeks to preserve market share. Ministers were gathering