South Sudan rebel group releases 15 detainees following ceasefire

A South Sudanese rebel group said on Monday it had released 15 army soldiers it had been holding to The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in line with a ceasefire agreed by the government and rebel groups last month.

Sudan People’s Liberation Association –In Opposition (SPLA-IO) spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel told Reuters that the rebel group had released the prisoners on Sunday and that it was collecting names of prisoners of war from battlefields across the Equatorial region, which borders Uganda.