The Court of Cassation overturned in Egypt Wednesday the death penalty for 149 people accused of the murder of 13 police officers in 2013, the same day that security forces killed hundreds of protesters demanding the return of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi dismissed by the army. The high court ordered …

An agreement in principle on the amount of the fee paid by the South Sudan in Sudan to use its pipelines was signed by the oil ministers of the two countries, according to press reports published Thursday. Sudanese pipelines, leading to Port Sudan on the shore of the Red Sea, …

The Burkinabe president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, the first civilian to gain power democratically since independence, posted Thursday its intention to form a “republican, apolitical and operational” army in the impoverished West African subscriber to coups. “In the program I developed, I was very clear: we need a republican army, …