JUBA: At least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in battles over livestock in South Sudan, local officials said Friday, the latest in a series of attacks between rival communities.
Battles over Cattle between rival factions of the Dinka people, the Rup and Pakam clans, broke out on December 6 in the central area of Western Lakes, some 250 kilometres north west of the capital Juba."More than 60 people were killed, and dozens wounded," Akol Paul Kordit, a local MP who also serves as the country´s deputy information minister, wrote in a statement. Fighting continued with the latest raid at dawn on Friday, it said. Rival pastoralist communities in South Sudan have a long and bloody history of tit-for-tat raids in which Cattle are rustled and property looted. Women are commonly raped and children abducted, adding fuel to revenge attacks.
12-09-2017, 08:21 AM
Cattle battles in South Sudan kill over 60
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