AFRICA• The Nigerian government brokers a one-month ceasefire with groups that have destroyed oil pipelines in the Niger Delta.• Zimbabwe limits imports of goods such as jam and synthetic hair (weaves). The cash-strapped government also delays paying military and police salaries by two weeks.• A yellow fever epidemic breaks out in the Democratic Republic of Congo.• Tunisia extends by a month a state of emergency in place since November following a series of attacks.• A court judgment reverses an Egyptian government decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.• The US supreme court rejects an appeal by South Africans to revive apartheid claims against Ford and IBM.ABROAD• The US Senate rejects plans to tighten gun controls, including restricting weapon sales to people on terror watch lists.• The EU extends the energy, financial and defence sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine until January 2017.• The head of a Chinese village which held a revolt in 2011 over...
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