South Sudan MP criticises lack of security in Tumbura

According to a local MP, more than 250 people have been killed in deadly ethnic and rebel clashes in Western Equatoria. An update on further confrontations between the government army and forces allied to the TPLF in Tigray from Ethiopia. Nigerians debate if it's fair for Church and traditional rulers to charge for funerals. AFP journalist Sosthène Kambidi is being held for questioning in Kinshasa after witnesses mentioned his name in relation to a case of murder involving two UN workers.

(Photo: Trainee soldiers for a new unified army raise their wooden rifles above their heads while attending a reconciliation programme run by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)