Eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan were on a flight intended for South Sudan this week.

Lawyers for the migrants say they were given abrupt notice regarding their clients’ removal to South Sudan, a war-torn nation facing a hunger crisis.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has reshuffled the senior leadership in the ruling party, according to an official decree, as the country faces fresh fighting between rival armed factions and widespread speculation about Kiir's succession plans.