Another 20 people were injured in the attacks launched by gunmen on communities in Jonglei district. According to a local official, the specific operations started on Sunday and are ongoing.
More than 60 are dead, including women and children, from the attacks launched by extremists in the Pibor region of South Sudan in the last 48 hours, as the authorities of the African country announced today.
Another 20 people were injured in the attacks launched by gunmen on communities in Jonglei district. Those operations began on Sunday and are ongoing, a local official told the German News Agency (dpa).
According to him, several villages on the outskirts of the town of Pibor — about 350 kilometers northeast of the capital Juba — have been looted and set on fire, while heavily armed assailants have kidnapped residents and stolen their livestock.
Condemning the “barbaric” attack, he underlined that dozens of villagers spent Christmas hiding in the woods, without food.
Jonglei and Upper Nile districts, in the eastern part of the country, have been rocked by extremist attacks in recent weeks. According to UN figures, more than 9,100 people have been forced to leave their homes. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an organization made up of eight East African states, puts the number of displaced people at 50,000 as of mid-November.
Power in South Sudan has been exercised in recent years by a fragile transitional government under President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former rebel leader Riek Macar.
The civil war that broke out in 2013 claimed the lives of thousands of people while millions of residents took the path of refugee. Armed groups continue to clash over control of areas in the oil-rich African country, despite a peace deal.
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