A report by Agence France-Presse on Thursday pointed to court papers filed June 26 that characterized Nelson Mandela’s life-threatening condition.    

The call for protests came after a crackdown against figures in the party of the deposed leader Mohamed Morsi.    

Supporters and opponents of Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president overthrown a year after his election, continued to fill the streets of Cairo on Thursday.    

As prosecutors arrested dozens of top Muslim Brotherhood members, a senior Egyptian jurist was sworn in as acting head of state.    

One aid worker was killed and three others wounded when a grenade hit their office during a gunfight between competing security forces in Darfur.    

A legal fight over a burial site is settled, but other troubles are simmering among Nelson Mandela’s family and political colleagues.