South Sudan in Focus

The United Nations World Food Program says it has suspended operations in Leer County of South Sudan’s Unity State following recent clashes in the area; The Chief Editor of one of South Sudan’s oldest English daily, The Juba Monitor, says the newspaper is still operational despite a court order issued early this week to suspend its operations; Sudanese political parties express a mixed reaction to the decision of a Sudanese court to release 20 members of former President Omar Bashir’s government after spending nearly two years in jail.