International

The East African Community (EAC) member countries have agreed to adopt a protocol by August that will have legal mechanisms to prevent non-tariff barriers amongst member countries.

Three of Egypt's main presidential candidates have filed appeals after the election commission barred them from running, shaking up an already tumultuous race and political transition.

The Sierra Leonean government has ordered the police to reopen the case of the so-called adoptions of 29 children, who were said to have been trafficked to the United States in 1997 by a local non-governmental organization, Help A Needy Child International ( HANCI).

Rights violations continue in Bahrain and the government's response to the findings of an international commission of inquiry have proved inadequate, Amnesty International has said.
In a report released on Tuesday, the rights group found that Bahrain had failed to achieve justice for protesters with the piecemeal reforms implemented following the November 2011 report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI).

Cambridge University Press (CUP) has launched a new series of works by Chinese scholars in English at the ongoing London Book Fair, which focuses on China this year.