Content_paragraphs:  In early September, at a district court martial held in Yei, which had been 
  
  launched in July, it was announced that 26 South Sudan People’s Defence Forces 
  
  soldiers had been convicted for their involvement in various offences committed in 
  
  the southern counties of Central Equatoria primarily between 2019 and 2020. The 
  
  figure included 13 soldiers convicted of rape and 4 of attempted murder and causing 
  
  grievous harm. Civilian courts in various locations convicted one Forces soldier of 
  
  murder and convicted four South Sudan National Police Service personnel, three 
  
  SPLA-IO personnel and one member of the Forces of sexual crimes against eight 
  
  underage girls.