The main parties in north and south Sudan have reached a deal on the distribution of seats in parliament, ending a long deadlock. The south will get an extra 40 seats in parliament, meaning MPs from the region could block constitutional changes.

Two Rwandan peacekeepers have been killed and three seriously wounded in Sudan’s Darfur region, the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force says. A spokesman for Unamid said gunmen had fired on 20 peacekeepers escorting a water tanker near...