South Sudanese express mixed reactions to a decision by the country’s lawmakers to increase their monthly allowances from around 23 US dollars to 2,000 US dollars; The France based medical charity Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, has condemned the detention of its medical staff in the Sudanese capital Khartoum early this week; Sudanese public health experts suspect that a recent wave of respiratory infections that has swept across the country is related to COVID-19, and possibly the Omicron variant