ANC welcomes news on Nelson Mandela: News24: South Africa: News garage.

"Cape Town - The African National Congress has congratulated the Surgeon-General and the defence force for their 'sterling work' while former president Nelson Mandela was being treated in hospital.

It was announced on Friday that Mandela had been discharged from the Milpark Hospital, in Johannesburg, and would receive home-based care for an acute respiratory infection.

'This announcement brings to the end weeks of speculations and insensitive reporting by some sections of the media on the health of Madiba,' party spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said in a statement on Friday.

'We commend the sterling work done by the SANDF medical team led by the Surgeon-General, Lieutenant-General Vejaynand Ramlakan, who was responsible for Madiba's health and the Milpark Hospital specialised doctors, management and staff.'

The party also sent thanks to 'the entire South Africa community' and the international community for sending prayers and well wishes to Mandela for his speedy recovery.

- SAPA"

ANC welcomes news on Nelson Mandela: News24: South Africa

Egypt sends army into streets amid mass protests

"Cairo, Egypt -- The Egyptian army patrolled the streets of Cairo with armored personnel carriers Friday after thousands of angry anti-government demonstrators clashed with tear-gas firing police.
As the government cracked down on protesters across Egypt, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who returned home to Cairo to join the demonstrations, was placed under house arrest, a high-level security source told CNN.
ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, was warned earlier not to leave a mosque near downtown Cairo where he was attending Friday prayers.
Authorities imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. local time in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, where the largest demonstrations took place Friday.
In Cairo, vans packed with riot police circled neighborhoods before the start of weekly prayers in the afternoon. Later in the day, Egyptian soldiers moved onto the streets for the first time since the unrest began Tuesday.
But protesters, fed up with economic woes and a lack of freedoms, defied security warnings to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian 30-year-rule."

Egypt sends army into streets amid mass protests - CNN.com