AFRICA• Zimbabwe provides free cotton seed to farmers to revive what was once its biggest source of export revenue.• A solar-powered bus made in Uganda is shown off at a stadium in Kampala.• Bombings of oil pipelines cause thousands of barrels of oil to pollute waterways, agricultural fields and fishing grounds in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state.• An Egyptian cartoonist is briefly arrested for “running a website without a licence”.• Members of the AU back a Kenyan proposal to push for withdrawal from the International Criminal Court.• Anti-corruption authorities raid the offices of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Namadi Sambo.ABROAD• Google overtakes Apple as the world’s most valuable listed company.• A former director of the Brazilian oil firm Petrobras is jailed, after a corruption probe.• A trial begins in Guatemala of two ex-military officers for human rights abuses against indigenous women.• More than 100 people have been arrested over several months in a crackdown on abuses ...
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