Efforts to unify soldiers in South Sudan ‘stuck’: UN envoy | South Sudan

Troops brought together at joint training sites across South Sudan were deserting because of a lack of food, UN says. The United Nations special envoy to South Sudan on Tuesday said almost no progress has been made in unifying the country’s warring forces under one army, as promised under a hard-fought peace deal. The pledge to bring government and rebel soldiers under a national banner was a