The opposition in Guinea says it would be best if the military leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara stays out of politics for a while. An opposition spokesman told the BBC that what he described as agitators in Captain Camara's entourage who tried to use him to pursue their own interests. On Tuesday, Captain Camara flew to Burkina Faso from Morocco where he was being treated for injuries received in an assassination attempt last month.

A high court in Nigeria has ruled that the vice president has the right to perform all duties on behalf of the president without a formal transfer of power. President Umaru Yar'Adua has been receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia since November, a move which has caused unease in Nigeria. From Abuja, Caroline Duffield has this report.

When President Yar'Adua was rushed to hospital, he didn't formally hand presidential powers to his deputy. Now in the first of full-court cases, a judge has ruled that the current situation is legal. Justice Daniel Abutu said that the vice president is able to perform all duties on behalf of the president, and crucially he said that no formal transfer of presidential powers by letter was necessary for that to happen. He said a formal transfer was only at the president's discretion.

Israel has formally apologized to Turkey for a breach of diplomatic manners that threatened to open a serious rift between the two countries. The row started while Israeli angered at alleged anti-Semitism in a Turkish television series, but deepened when Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon publicly humiliated the Turkish ambassador when delivering a protest.