Your weekly roundup of key political stories from Sudan and South Sudan:

Athorbei stops paying hotel bills of Deng Alor and SPLM-FDs (Radio Tamazuj, 27 March 2016) - South Sudan's Finance Minister David Deng Athorbei says the government will no longer pay for the hotel expenses of the SPLM-Former Detainees, one of thee main signatories to the August 2015 peace deal.

S Sudan govt, opposition disagree on transitional parliament chair (Radio Tamazuj, 24 March 2016) - Henry Dihal Odwar, a senior member of the SPLM-IO, said they and the government have reached a deadlock on the formation of a transitional parliament.

Sudanese opposition say Mbeki's 'roadmap' biased toward govt (Radio Tamazuj, 24 March 2016) - Sudanese opposition groups said Tuesday that the roadmap presented by former South African President Thabo Mbeki at the consultative talks in Addis Ababa is biased to the vision of the Sudanese government.

South Sudan President fires Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial (Radio Tamazuj, 23 March 2016) - President Salva Kiir on Wednesday night fired his foreign minister who had served in the role throughout the current civil war and prior to that had been South Sudan's information minister.

Turabi's successor restructures party leadership (Radio Tamazuj, 23 March 2016) - Ibrahim al-Sanusi, the Acting Secretary-General of the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP), on Monday announced restructuring of party institutions to include the general secretariat and nomination of three deputies to the secretary-general and establishment of new secretariats.