The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) one year with 13 members of the council voting in favor of the extension. Russia and China abstained; Local leaders in Yei County of South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State say gunmen abducted five motorcycle operators, commonly known as boda-boda, along the Yei ̶ Ombaci road as they were transporting passengers to a local market; Authorities in the Western Bahr el Ghazal State capital Wau are training dozens of youth who formerly belonged to youth gangs in various vocational professions as part of a youth empowerment program