South Sudan in Focus

Authorities are condemning a deadly cattle raid in Rubkona County of South Sudan’s Unity State which left more than a dozen South Sudanese and Sudanese cattle herders killed; Lecturers at South Sudan’s main public university, the University of Juba, have gone on strike to protest the non-payment of their salary arrears for the past six months; Some 60 South Sudanese inmates sent to harvest sesame in Sudanese farms near the border with Ethiopia were reportedly captured by the Ethiopian armed group early this week