Guest: Daniel van Galen - Senior Country Risk Analyst at Signal Risk

With 13 South African soldiers dead and an undisclosed number wounded, President Cyril Ramaphosa is in desperate pursuit of an urgent ceasefire to extricate the trapped troops. Several regional diplomatic initiatives are under way to try to end the major outbreak of war in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which has killed 13 South African soldiers and wounded many more over the last week.