Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum early on July 6, killing 29 students and a teacher, witnesses said, AP reported.
The leader of Sudan's Islamist opposition condemned the ousting of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi July 5, calling it "a coup against legitimacy," Reuters reported.
Armed men kidnapped three students in the National Youths Service Corps from the Abua/Odual Local Government Area in southeastern Nigeria on June 30, Xinhua reported.
South African riot police clashed with a crowd of several hundred protesters in Johannesburg's Soweto township shortly before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, Reuters reported.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 24 to coordinate actions against U.S. monetary policy, Folha de Sao Paulo reported.
