BBC news with Iain Purdon

Egypt has urged the United States to take steps to prevent any repeat of the offense caused by an internet film which mocked Islam sparking protest across the Arab world and beyond. The Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil told the BBC that millions of people have been insulted and measures should be taken to prevent further incidents.

We need to work out something around this because you cannot be, you cannot wait and see this happen again. You know these are small group number of people that they (are) doing irresponsible work, and then everybody is paying the price for these people's work. And we have to do whatever takes to stop this thing from happening again.

Sudan has rejected a request from the United States to allow a unit of American marines onto its territory to boost the security at the US embassy in Khartoum. The Sudanese foreign minister told the state news agency that Sudan was capable of protecting all diplomatic missions itself. On Friday, crowds of people angered by the American made anti-Islam film attacked the embassies of Germany and Britain in Khartoum and forced their way onto the compound of the American embassy.

The security forces in South Sudan are investigating how they accidently shot at one of its own military vessels on the River Nile sinking it leaving at least ten soldiers dead. A spokesman for the South Sudanese army Colonel Philip Aguer said that the boat had travelled past a checkpoint at night. It failed to respond to a request to stop and was then fired on.