South Sudan in Focus airs at 7:30 pm in Juba (1630 UTC) and can be heard on FM stations throughout South Sudan, on shortwave, and on VOA’s 24-hour channel in Nairobi at 8:30 pm. The program is hosted by John Tanza in Washington D.C., and a network of reporters around South Sudan and in Washington.

Some South Sudanese students living and studying in Nairobi say the protests in the Kenyan capital disrupted their studies; church leaders in Eastern Equatoria state are calling on the leadership of South Sudan to address the country’s dire economic crisis; plus more.