South Sudan in Focus

With less than a year left to the end of South Sudan’s unity government, some political leaders say the country is not ready for general elections; Lecturers at the University of Bahr-el-Ghazal joined their counterparts at the University of Juba Monday in laying down their tools to pressure the government to pay them six months’ salary arrears; Local leaders say more than 10, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) remain in dire need of basic necessities including shelter, food, and clean water weeks after they were displaced when cattle keepers attacked villages in Eastern Equatoria State; Authorities in Twic County of Warrap State and Abyei Special Administrative Area are welcoming the arrival of a fact-finding committee to investigate the root causes of the recent deadly conflict between communities from the two areas.