South Sudan in Focus

Today’s top stories: The head of JMEC reiterates his call for South Sudan’s warring parties and armed groups to end hostilities and observe the peace deal; a senior education official in South Sudan says funding for education has dwindled in the last four years due to insecurity in the region; and Ugandan traders say South Sudan’s failure to pay for them for commodities, government facilities and transport services has caused their businesses to collapse.