U.S. envoy arrives in Sudan, Al-Arabiya TV says

FILE PHOTO: U.N. Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman speaks during a news conference in Colombo March 3, 2015. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/Files

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States' special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, arrived in Khartoum on Tuesday to try to defuse a crisis following a coup last week by Sudan's top general, Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel reported.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's cabinet on Oct. 25 and put him under house arrest, prompting Western states to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Sudan.