Journalists in Aweil have described their relationship with the government as merely “average”. They did so at a training organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, aimed at discussing how to improve the collaboration between the two sides.

A joint monitoring and verification team from Juba has inspected the Sue cantonment site of opposition forces near Yambio. The delegation confirmed the absence of children in their military ranks and found no evidence of the presence of women allegedly abducted in the area either.

Landili, a strategically situated town near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in the south-western part of the country, has been facing security problems ever since the end of South Sudan’s most recent crisis in 2016.