UN ambassador on South Sudan’s challenges

As South Sudan nears its 10-year independence anniversary, Focus on Africa speaks to the United Nations ambassador to the country, Nicholas Haysom. He discusses the huge challenges facing the young country, where hopes for a peaceful, prosperous future have been hampered by insecurity, fighting, hunger and poverty.

Plus, after students at an Oxford University college in the UK voted to remove a portrait of the Queen of England from their common room, deeming it a symbol of "recent colonial history", two African students discuss the extent to which the continent still suffers from the legacy of colonialism.

And we get the latest on a lawsuit filed at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, challenging the Nigerian government’s decision to block access to Twitter.

(Photo: South Sudan’s 2019 independence celebrations; Credit: Getty Images)