Sudanese soldiers side with protesters

- Sudanese soldiers have appeared on social media videos openly showing their support for protesters who have camped outside army headquarters for a fourth day. Sparked by spiralling costs of living and worsening of economic conditions, the demonstrators have regularly filled the streets of Khartoum since December 2018 asking for President Omar al-Bashir to step down after thirty years in power.

- The Algerian parliament has elected Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president after former president Abdulaziz Bouteflika resigned following mass protests in the country. But Bensalah has failed to attract the appeal of the public, who sees him as the "personification of the old regime", as BBC Arabic's Ilyasse Temlali explains.

- We speak to Somalia's only free private ambulance service. When a bomb explodes in the terrorists-plagued capital Mogadishu, Aamin Ambulance Service is there. So why has the Police asked them to stop attending blasts' sites?

(Image: Tuesday is the fourth day protesters have been outside the army HQ. Credit: AFP)