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, …

The Tunisian government has decided to lift the night curfew imposed on January 22 on the territory following an unprecedented wave of social protest since the 2011 revolution, thus acknowledging the return to calm in the country observed for one week .