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

Kiir's extra-ordinary SPLM convention postponed to January (Radio Tamazuj, 12 December 2015) - The SPLM convention scheduled to take place on the 12 of December 2015 has been postponed to a later date in 2016 due to "technical problems."

Juba govt, SPLM-IO rebels disagree on advance team (Radio Tamazuj, 11 December 2015) - South Sudan's Presidential Press Secretary Ateny Wek Ateny said they haven’t agreed with the SPLM/A-IO rebel group on the number of its advance delegation to the capital Juba.

AU requests 'unofficial' talks between Khartoum, SPLA-N (Radio Tamazuj, 9 December 2015) - The African Union has announced two-days of unofficial talks between the Sudanese government and the SPLA-North rebel group next week in Addis Ababa in order to reach understandings on outstanding issues.

'Dissidents of Sudan's Unionist Party dismiss chairman' (Radio Tamazuj, 8 December 2015) - A group of dissident members of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have reportedly dismissed the party's chairman, Mohamed Osman El Mirghani.

 VP Igga meets opposition representativs over peace implementation (Radio Tamazuj, 7 December 2015) - South Sudan’s Vice-president James Wani Igga met Thursday with representatives of SPLM-IO and SPLM-G10 also known as the “Former Detainees” in the capital Juba.