CAIRO: The leaders of five Arab countries will hold a summit in Libya next week, President Hosni Mubarak was quoted on Friday as saying.

The leaders, from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Tunisia, will talk about Arab and African issues, the state news agency MENA said, quoting an interview with Mubarak to be published in the state newspaper al-Ahram on Saturday.

The agency gave no other details of the summit.