Algeria's interim president fails to appeal to protesters.

- The Algerian parliament has elected Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president after former president Abdulaziz Bouteflika resigned following mass protests in the country. The temporary position should last for up to ninety days. 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

- 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

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