South Sudan in Focus

South Sudan in Focus: President Salva Kiir has called on holdout rebel groups to embrace dialogue as a way to address the country’s political instability; Authorities in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State are raising the alarm about what they say is looming hunger in parts of the state; The body monitoring South Sudan’s ceasefire and security arrangements is expressing concern over delays by the government to graduate the joint security forces who have been stationed for years at cantonment sites across the country.