[News24Wire] The Independent Commission on the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers has recommended yet another 5% salary increase for President Jacob Zuma.
[AIM] Maputo -The ruling body of international football, FIFA, has suspended all support for the Mozambican Football Federation (FMF) because of its failure to justify the use of FIFA funds in the past.
[Al Jazeera] Mali was under a state of emergency on Saturday after a brazen siege by gunmen at a five-star hotel killed 21 people in the heart of the capital, Bamako.
[Mo Ibrahim Foundation] Accra -Hifikepunye Pohamba, the former President of Namibia, tonight accepted the 2014 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership at a special ceremony in Accra, Ghana.
[Deutsche Welle] On Friday morning gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in the Malian capital, Bamako, taking 170 guests and staff hostage. Malian special forces stormed the hotel to free the captives. Several people were killed.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -A new mobile phone app designed to help aid workers predict where hunger may strike and provide help in good time was launched by Austrian scientists on Thursday.
[Accra Report] Ghana's major opposition party the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been highly tipped to win next year's general elections, the latest report of the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit states.
[Aswat Masriya] President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed a nuclear power plant deal with Russia Thursday, just days after the Kremlin's unilateral announcement that the Russian charter flight which blew up over Sinai late October was downed by an act of terrorism.
