South Sudan to form "national unity government" in 100 days

President Salva Kiir and former vice president turned rebel-leader Riek Machar have announced that the sticking points preventing the formation of a government of national unity have been resolved. Should South Sudanese people be hopeful? We ask Senior Analyst of International Crisis Group, Alan Boswell.

Former president of the Central African Republic François Bozizé has reportedly returned to the country to run as a candidate in the upcoming elections. This is despite existing UN sanctions and a travel ban against him. But in a nation where competing factions are still fighting for power, will the presence of the former president reignite ongoing conflict? Focus on Africa asks Louisa Lombard, professor of political anthropology at Yale University in the US.

In Cameroon, hundreds of PhD holders lament that the government hasn't put them in the list of over 1000 teachers recruited into state universities, after they had been volunteering as teachers.

(Photo: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir waits for the arrival of Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, at the Presidential Palace in Juba, South Sudan, on December 10, 2019. Credit: ALEX MCBRIDE/AFP via Getty Images)