Residents in the Upper Nile region will soon heave a collective sigh of relief. A major trade and service road connecting Malakal with Melut will receive much-needed repairs from the UN mission’s peacekeepers based in the area.

Meeting in Tonj, cattle keepers in South Sudan’s Malual-Muok have renewed their commitment to respect the terms of a cattle migration agreement with farming communities in neighbouring Wau. 

Mary Nyamayi Tut, the chairlady of the displaced women who have sought sanctuary at the UN protection site 3 in Juba, believes that if hatred and hate speech is pervasive among South Sudanese communities, conflict will not stop.