The European parliament has voted overwhelmingly for a financial transactions tax as eurozone leaders gather for a summit and dinner in Brussels to discuss the region’s financial crisis.
The papers in Egypt are, understandably, dominated by election-related news. Voters go to the polls in the first round of the process to elect a new president today and tomorrow.
The front pages of the main dailies are all about the first cabinet meeting of new French President François Hollande’s government as it faces a raft of pressing problems.
Zuma stands firm on SA's youth wage ... or does he? Are SA trade union's intolerant? Kenya lowers its growth hopes. And how safe are Uganda's anti-retrovirals?
Is the ICC trial over Kenya's 2007 post-poll violence going to start before the end of the year? Is al-Shebab getting strict in central Somalia? What are SA bosses ready to sacrifice?
