Ethiopia's PM to travel to Sudan amid ongoing crisis

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will head to Sudan on Friday in the hopes of hosting a meeting between Sudan's military council and opposition leaders, an unidentified diplomatic source told Reuters.

Abiy's choice to act as mediator follows the African Union's (AU) decision to suspend Sudan from all AU activities until the country forms a civilian government.

It is unclear whether the meeting will take place, however, as the Sudanese opposition has rejected calls to go back to negotiations after the deadly assault on protesters in Khartoum this week.