Hello, today what hope now for the world's newest nation.

Foreign soldiers have joined the fighting in South Sudan.

Peace talks are faltering and the joy which accompanied independence two years ago is almost gone.

In Afghanistan the number of attacks on women is soaring as the withdrawal of Western troops

gathers pace. The return of a runaway dog in Mali means an awkward

meeting with the chief of police. And there's a sweaty chat about gay sex with

two Russian hunters in the Ural Mountains.

So the Ugandan army has now joined the fighting in South Sudan.

The Ugandan president said his soldiers were fighting alongside government troops against rebel forces.

He said the rebels had been defeated in what he described as a big battle around the town of

Boar.

Talks about a possible peace deal have been going on in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa,

but there's little optimism about the eventual outcome.

Andrew Hardings are man providing coverage in and around the South Sudanese capital Juba.

We tried a tow rope, it snapped, someone started banging the car battery with a rock.

For some reason that didn't work either. It was midday and hot. We've been driving

along what paths for roads in South Sudan for perhaps three hours. Around us a

daunting landscape, vast flat plains, broken by a few steep hills that jutted out like toys in a

sand pit. Eventually, we started pushing the car, still no luck. Finally, someone fixed the tow rope and our two vehicles resumed their queasy

lurch away from the front lines and back towards the capital, Juba. Beside me, at the wheel Jacob Deng was stroking his wispy goatee and wondering what had happened to the brand new country he fought so long to get.

No one expected this, he said.

Like so many in South Sudan, Jacob's life has already been warped by decades of conflict.

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