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A South Sudanese soldier monitors the area as troops belonging to the South Sudanese Unified Forces take part in a deployment ceremony at the Luri Military Training Centre in Juba on November 15, 2023. Hundreds of former rebels and government troops in South Sudan’s Unified Forces were deployed at a long-overdue ceremony on November 15, 2023, marking progress for the country’s lumbering peace process. (Photo by Peter Louis GUME / AFP) (Photo by PETER LOUIS GUME/AFP via Getty Images)