South Sudan in Focus

Sudanese political parties have rejected Thursday’s announcement by military leader Abdel Fattah Al Burhan of a new 13-member Sovereign Council, saying the decision is unconstitutional and puts the country on a path to military rule; Dozens of South Sudanese students studying at various Ethiopian universities say they are stranded and hungry after they were evacuated from the Amhara region to Addis Ababa following clashes between the Ethiopian government and TPLF rebels