Officials in Tunisia say the Islamist-led government has agreed to step down in a few weeks time, and make way for a caretaker administration after negotiations with secular opposition are concluded. Talks in forming a transitional government could start on Monday. Peter Hiett reports.

The moderate Islamist party Ennahda which led the Tunisian government was careful to share power in the hope avoiding the worst mistake that President Morsi and his colleagues in Egypt. But it’s still found itself accused of being too soft in Islamist extremists especially of the separate assassinations of two leftist opponents. It starts outcry which led to talks with secular opposition brokered by trade unions on how to emerge from Tunisia's political paralysis. The next step is three weeks of talk on forming a non-party government followed by fresh elections.

The body in charge of destroying chemical weapons in Syria, the OPCW has said its first wave of experts will travel to Damascus on Sunday. A spokesman for the group told the BBC they are confident they can carry out the mission of verification and destruction on time provided they have Syrian and international support.

A suicide car bomb attack in northern Mali has killed two people and left several wounded. It's the first such attack since President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita took power last month promising to make security a top priority.

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