South Sudan in Focus

Some families of people arrested early this month in the Jonglei State capital Bor during a crackdown on youth gangs are calling on the authorities to either release or try them; South Sudanese lawmakers at the East African Legislative Assembly are welcoming the regional parliament’s decision to suspend job recruitment at the East African Community Secretariat after the Assembly voted to refer the matter to East African Community Council of Ministers; Partners in South Sudan’s unity government have ordered their forces to return to training camps ahead of a tentatively planned November graduation. Many of the troops had deserted their cantonment sites because of a lack of food and medicines, among other hardships