South Sudan in Focus

Authorities in South Sudan deployed heavy security in the capital Juba to deter a much-publicized nationwide protests against the Transitional Government of National Unity; South Sudan’s minister of cabinet affairs says President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar have agreed on a command structure of the unified forces; the International Committee of the Red Cross in South Sudan says more than 5,000 people are still missing from their families in the country. The head of the ICRC protection department says ICRC has reunited 700 missing people with their families in south Sudan