Congolese shock at 'fat cat' pay
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There is widespread shock in DR Congo after an audit revealed that managers of state companies earn up to $25,000 a month.
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Â· Â£1.7m sent abroad to families is lostÂ· Boss in 'Bengali Farepak' receives death threats
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.
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The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, Feb. 8:  Do people earning more than $200,000 a year deserve a welfare check from Uncle Sam? Of course not.
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Business & money: Â·  Rebels want cash payout from American spin-off Â·  Fresh row likely over executive remuneration
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The shouts of astonishment and outrage echoed from every part of the country yesterday as Canadians contemplated the newly announced federal government budget surplus: $9.
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The BBC's Alasdair Sandford examines reaction in France to the massive fraud by a Paris-based bank trader.
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MASERU, 1 December (IRIN) - The preliminary findings of a study on child domestic workers in Lesotho, forced onto the job market by poverty and HIV/AIDS, has uncovered the sometimes &quot;highly abusive nature&quot; of their relationship with employers.
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Gordon Brown's pay deal for public sector workers could cost him a "political price", the TUC warns.
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A Chinese court has ordered a holiday resort and a crocodile keeper to pay almost 220,000 yuan ($30,600) in compensation to the parents of a nine-year-old boy who was devoured by the reptiles last year.
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The women received their first paychecks a few weeks ago Â about $500 for a month's work as police officers. They paid rent, bought food, wiped out debts. But the seemingly simple transaction has left at least one woman in fear for her life, another threatened with divorce.
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ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast  - Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says are siphoning off farmers' cash.
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Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had a rude shock at a Healthy Lifestyles event on Sunday. Shortly after encouraging a Gugulethu crowd to eat healthily and to do more exercise to avoid heart disease
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Comment is free: Deborah Hargreaves: Reward for performance is one thing. But today's executive pay is farcically overblown.
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A High Court judge rules that Zambia must pay a substantial sum to a so-called "vulture fund" in a debt dispute.
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South African workers striking over pay and benefits have a new complaint -- they no longer have the energy for sex.
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But that&#39;s the way it is in the crazy world of overpaid, pampered performers who can&#39;t be happy with a league-wide average salary of $1.