South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar, a long-time rival of the country's President Salva Kiir, has been placed under house arrest, his party says.
An armed convoy led by top security officials, including the defence minister, entered Machar's residence in the capital, Juba, and disarmed his bodyguards late on Wednesday, said the Sudan People's Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM/IO).
The Sudanese army has recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum from the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, military leaders have said.
Video and photographs posted on social media and verified show jubilant soldiers waving their guns, cheering, and kneeling to pray.
The army appears poised to regain control of the capital two years after its paramilitary rivals, known as the RSF, kicked it out.
The UK is hosting a closed meeting today of senior military leaders from the "coalition of the willing", as they draw up plans for a proposed peacekeeping force for Ukraine.
More than 20 countries are thought to be involved. Plans for a Western-led peacekeeping force for Ukraine are said to be moving to an operational phase.
President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda have held direct talks for the first time since Rwanda-backed March 23 fighters seized Goma and Bukavu major cities in the eastern DRC.
In a joint statement issued with Qatar, whose emir mediated the talks in Doha, the countries called for an “immediate ceasefire” in eastern DRC
President Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate and full ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, following a call with US President Donald Trump.
The Russian leader declined to sign up to the comprehensive month-long ceasefire that Trump's team recently worked out with Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia.
He said a comprehensive truce could only work if foreign military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine came to an end. Ukraine's European allies have previously rejected such conditions.
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