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South Sudan has a new unified army

The formation of the security force is a key pillar of a peace deal signed in 2018

Soldiers and police drawn from rival sides of the civil war in South Sudan have been brought together in a long awaited formation of a unified army.

We hear from Michael Dunford, the United Nations World Food Programme Regional Director for Eastern Africa, as the first shipment of wheat from Ukraine arrives in Africa since the start of the conflict with Russia.

And the governor of Borno State in Nigeria, Babagana Zulum, launches a new initiative to enrol children in school who鈥檝e been forced away by the Boko Haram conflict.

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