Russian FM Sergey Lavrov says Sudan and other countries have right to turn to Wagner mercenary group's services amid fighting raging between forces loyal to country's two top generals since April 15.
Witnesses report air strikes and paramilitary forces fire anti-aircraft weapons while WHO warns of "huge biological risk" after fighters occupy laboratory in capital Khartoum.
The Eid ceasefire "must be the first step in providing respite from the fighting and paving the way for a permanent ceasefire," Guterres says.
Fighting continues despite a 24-hour ceasefire lobbied for by countries trying to evacuate their citizens as conflict leaves nearly 300 people dead and thousands wounded.
Chad's army stopped and disarmed a Sudanese contingent of 320 soldiers who entered the West African country two days ago, Defence Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim says.
Souleyman Adoum placed in police custody late Friday during protest in Paris against pension reform.
A government source said, on condition of anonymity, that the German ambassador to Chad was seen as "interfering too much" in the governance of the country.
N'Djamena's decision is motivated by "discourteous attitude" and "non-respect of diplomatic customs," the Central African country says.
The rebels were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for acts of terrorism, undermining national security and endangering the life of the head of state but later pardoned by the government.
Those pardoned by interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby are among hundreds of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad members sentenced to life in prison over "terrorism acts."
Hundreds of rebels of FACT group have been given life sentences while another 24 have been acquitted in killing of ex-ruler Idriss Deby, says prosecutor for capital N'Djamena.
Gunmen shot dead John Granville, a 33-year-old US Agency for International Development employee, along with his 40-year-old Sudanese driver Abdel Rahman Abbas on New Year's Day 2008.
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