Libya at a crossroads

- In Libya, the ongoing struggle for Tripoli between a UN-backed but weak government and force loyal to Khalifa Haftar, an ex field marshall in the former national army. His forces control much of the east of Libya, and last week he announced he would take Tripoli. We speak to BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani who has reported several times from inside Libya and has met Khalifa Hafta before

- 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

- We travel to Liberia's capital Monrovia, and experience what road traffic is like in this city without traffic lights

(Image: Gen Haftar's forces were pictured in the southern town of Sebha last month. Credit: AFP)