South Sudan in Focus - February 16, 2022

Authorities in South Sudan’s Abyei Administrative Area say hundreds of people have been displaced in Agok town following inter communal clashes last week which left more than a dozen people dead; A joint defense board tasked with unifying forces belonging to various parties to South Sudan’s peace agreement says it has completed the screening of all forces in preparation for unification, graduation and deployment; The defense council for some 100 political detainees in Sudan’s Soba prison, who are reportedly on hunger strike, has expressed concern about their health conditions saying their clients are denied access to healthcare and legal counsel