The newly elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Mursi, dismissed two generals on Sunday, and quashed a military order that had curtailed the new government's powers.

Mursi's spokesperson described it as "sovereign" decision designed to pump "new blood" into the army.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will investigate recent violence in the north-eastern state of Assam.

77 people died after violence erupted between indigenous Bodo tribes and Bengali Muslim settlers.

Mexico’s Supreme Court has moved to hand over cases of human rights abuses by the military to civilian courts. The decision is a blow to the military’s culture of impunity in abuse, torture and executions.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, welcomed the recent agreements between Sudan and South Sudan, that have allowed humanitarian aid agencies into the liberation movement’s territory. However, she reiterated the need for both parties to formulate a deal resolving the pending issues along the border promptly.

Rice said,

Hundreds of people who died during the civil war in Ivory Coast last year were summarily executed.

Fighters who backed the current president are accused of committing many of the killings, according to a report commissioned by the government.

Almost a year after Muammar Gadaffi was ousted, power has been handed over to a newly elected Assembly.

The National Transitional Council, formed as an interim body during Libya’s revolution, has now been dissolved.

The chief of the NTC, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, admitted the NTC’s failure in bringing stability to Libya, but said they governed in “exceptional times”.

The US has started a project to clean Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War 40 years ago.

The £30 million joint project will clear a former US air force base, which was used to store and mix the chemical weapon.

Sudan’s election to the UN Human Rights Council is all but certain, after it emerged that the Sudanese candidate has the full backing of the African Group in the UN.

Although Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, a war lord from his regime is set to take a seat on the panel.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, has compared it to putting “Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter,”

The Geneva based NGO has called on High Commissioner Navi Pillay to denounce the near-inevitable election of Sudan to the council.

The United States has said it remains “deeply concerned” about the tensions in the western Burmese state of Rakhine, but rejected allegations of “ethnic cleansing” made by the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC).

The Syrian army has attempted to wrest back control of Aleppo as rebels are reported to be withdrawing from their positions.

The army claims it has seized the Salaheddin district from rebel forces, but however human rights organisations have claimed that fighting is still ongoing.