South Sudan in Focus

Some opposition politicians have criticized President Salva Kiir’s decision to order the National Security Service to declassify information pertaining to the 2013 and 2016 violence that started in Juba and spread to other parts of the country; Some civil society activists say President Salva Kiir’s speech on Monday did not address the real problems facing the implementation of the peace agreement; Human Rights Watch is welcoming the upcoming trial of Sudanese militia leader Ali Kosheib at the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur