South Sudan in Focus

Local leaders in Leer County of South Sudan’s Unity State say 28 people have been killed in renewed clashes in the area. Last month 40 people were killed in the same county; Community leaders in the Abyei Special Administrative Area are welcoming the U.N. Security Council decision to extend the mandate of the Interim Security Force in Abyei; Calm has returned to Mugali and Nimule Payams of Magwi County in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State following recent violence between armed pastoralists and farmers which left dozens of people dead and thousands displaced