South Sudan graduates first batch of unified forces
The first unified armed forces of South Sudan are graduating, making them the first police and army officers trained for national service since independence was declared in 2011.
Nichola Mandil is a journalist in the capital Juba. He told Newsday: 鈥淔or the people of South Sudan it is a sense of relief because these soldiers鈥re expected to maintain security and bring the level of violence down and this is what South Sudanese will call peace.鈥�
(Picture: Police trainees, former soldiers of government and rebel groups, attend a training session with handmade wooden rifles or sticks and in civilian clothes at the unified training centre in Rejaf on March 25 2021. Credit: Waakhe Simon Wudu / AFP / via Getty Images)
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