EDITORIAL: What next after the screening of forces?

In December last year, the Joint Defence Board—a body tasked with overseeing the training and graduation of the Necessary Unified Forces (NUF)— dispatched the Joint Screening and Reorganisation teams to three regions: The Upper Nile, Bahr-el-Ghazal, and Equatoria region. According to the 2018 revitalised peace agreement, South Sudan is supposed to graduate 83,000 unified forces […]