The head of Mexico’s former ruling party resigned Friday over a financial scandal that threatened the party’s efforts to rebrand itself as corruption-free and retake the presidency in 2012.
South American independence hero Simon Bolivar once dreamed of unifying several nations as a counterweight to their powerful hemispheric neighbor, the United States.
An activist representing relatives of women slain or missing in the border city of Ciudad Juarez was shot Friday in what authorities called an apparent robbery attempt.
Two Burundian high school pupils were sentenced to life in prison Friday for killing a Croatian nun and an Italian charity worker in an armed attack on a mission this week, officials said.
A Rwandan journalist critical of his country’s President Paul Kagame has been shot dead in Kampala, a police spokesman said on Friday.
South Sudan will take legal action against Sudan and any companies engaging in the “theft” of its oil exports, the country’s oil minister said on Friday.
President Joseph Kabila and veteran opposition head Etienne Tshisekedi were ahead of the pack in early results from DR Congo’s elections, officials said Friday, amid mounting tension and fears of more violence.
Tunisia on Friday closed the second main border post into Libya following attacks on Tunisians on the Libyan side, a security source said two days after the first closure.
The UN Security Council on Friday refused to delay a vote next week on taking sanctions against Eritrea so the isolated country’s head of state can make his case, diplomats said.
Preliminary results from Congo’s presidential election show incumbent Joseph Kabila leading opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, although the country’s election chief warned only a small percentage of precincts had been counted.