Videos show reaction in Cairo and another Egyptian city, Port Said, to death sentences handed down in a deadly soccer riot case.

As French and Malian soldiers closed in on the eastern city of Gao, a militant stronghold, a human rights investigation continued to raise serious questions about the Malian Army.

The primary issue is whether to supply American refueling planes that would allow French jets to provide close-air support to ground forces moving north into extremist-held territory.

In a reversal, Ali Laarayedh, imprisoned repeatedly for his political activism, now is the interior minister of the security agency that once sent him to death row.

The energy giant Statoil on Friday confirmed the deaths of three of the company’s five employees who had been missing since Islamist militants attacked a gas installation in Algeria last week.

The Twitter account of the Shabab militant group in Somalia, which used to trumpet the group’s battlefield prowess and once had thousands of followers, has been shut down.