Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, has asked Britain to help remove Gadaffi-era weapons from the country, after warnings from the UN that arms are being smuggled to the civil war in neighbouring Syria. During talks with Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street, Zeidan said that

Protesters threw stones at officials from Mali’s newly elected government during a weekend visit to the main northern rebel stronghold, but the reconciliation minister said on Monday that efforts to heal the country’s deep social rifts were on track.

Egypt’s education authorities have recalled and destroyed thousands of textbooks glorifying the ousted Islamist president Mohammad Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood group, sources said.