Bloomberg South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) appears on track to dominate its sixth straight national election in May as it increasingly wins back supporters alienated by former President Jacob Zuma’s scandal-marred rule, an opinion poll shows. Sixty-one percent of 3,571 adults interviewed face-to-face by research company Ipsos between October 23 and December 4 last year said they’d vote ...

Bloomberg US forces will remain in northeastern Syria until Turkey agrees not to go after the Kurds, National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday, clarifying that President Donald Trump is committed to protecting opposition allies. “That’s what the president said, the ones that fought with us,” Bolton said, ahead of a meeting this week in Turkey with President Recep ...

Bloomberg France’s Yellow Vest movement staged mostly peaceful anti-government rallies on January 5 for the eighth weekend in a row but the protests ended with a small group smashing down the entrance to the ministry of the government spokesman. French television showed thousands marching along the Seine in Paris to gather in front of the National Assembly as well as ...