South Sudan's rebels on Friday denied a report alleging they were getting weapons delivered by air from Khartoum, claiming it was government troops who were using arms bought from Sudan.

According to a report released earlier this week by the London-based small arms research organisation, Conflict Armament Research, its researchers documented a cache of weapons and ammunition captured from the rebels in Jonglei State in November.

Conflicts and instability are hampering the fight against hunger in the Middle East at a time when undernourishment is on the rise, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned Wednesday.

Presenting a report on the Near East and North Africa region's progress on Millennium Development Goals set in 1990, FAO said MENA was the only region of the world in which hunger had increased.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir vowed Tuesday at his swearing in for another five-year term to open a "new page", saying he would bring peace and mend relations with the West.

Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, won elections in April with more than 94 percent of the vote amid low turnout and an opposition boycott.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in on Tuesday for another five years after he swept elections in April marked by a low turnout and an opposition boycott.

Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, won the elections with more than 94 percent of the vote.

A brawl broke out in the early hours of Monday morning between Sudanese and Eritrean migrants in the northern French port of Calais, resulting in 24 injuries, 14 of which required hospital treatment.

According to the emergency services, the fight began after a makeshift tent was torched and escalated quickly into running battles with iron bars.

Sudanese security forces seized the Monday print runs of nine newspapers and suspended the publishing licenses of four of them in a major media crackdown, editors and an NGO said.

National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) officers often confiscate newspapers over articles they deem inappropriate, but it is rare for them to seize so many at once.

Hundreds of Sudanese Islamists protested outside a U.N. office in central Khartoum Friday against the death sentence handed down to Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi by a court last week.

Morsi was among more than 100 defendants ordered by an Egyptian court on Saturday to face the death penalty for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.

The United States condemned intense fighting in war-wracked South Sudan, where government forces recaptured a key rebel enclave after a weeks-long assault marred by accusations of rights abuses.

The government assault that began in late April is one of the heaviest offensives in South Sudan's 17-month-long civil war, which has cut off over 650,000 people from aid.

Two South Sudanese pastors went on trial Tuesday in Sudan on accusations of spying and crimes against the state, for which they could receive the death penalty, their lawyer said.

Yat Michael and Peter Yen were arrested during visits to the Sudanese capital Khartoum in late 2014 and early 2015, respectively.

Stacked with rockets and machineguns, dozens of trucks seized from rebels lined the main square of South Darfur's state capital. Proof, Khartoum says, that its forces dealt insurgents a knockout blow.

Troops in camouflage and draped with ammunition pouches chatted on top of the trucks in Nyala, where Sudan was showing off the spoils from a major clash with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).