July 01, 2015 - Page 3

Five West African leaders Wednesday urged regional governments to liberalise the region’s electricity sector to overcome insufficient power capacities that deprive most of the area’s 300 million inhabitants access to energy. The

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has insisted he is not guilty of corruption despite the ongoing investigations into world football’s governing body. Blatter passionately denied any wrongdoing to German magazine Bunte despite two

Six people, including one police officer, were killed in gun battles Wednesday in a part of Burundi’s capital that has led protests against the president’s third-term bid, police said. The violence, in

In the marketplaces and at the school gates of downtown Monrovia, Liberians spoke Wednesday of their dread over the return of Ebola after the first case in three months emerged. Health authorities

The bodies of eight of at least 26 Britons killed in last week’s jihadist attack on a Tunisian beach resort were set to be flown home Wednesday, a British embassy source said.