Raiders from the Murle ethnic group killed 20 men, 22 women and one child, and injured 19 people in the small village of Duk Payel on Tuesday, Jonglei Information Minister Jocab Akech Deng said. The killings are the latest chapter in a chain of revenge attacks, cattle raiding, and child abduction between the Murle ethnic group and another group, the Dinka Bor. Cash and history keep Europe as Africa’s prime partner despite growing Chinese influenceOil-rich South Sudan dissolved into civil war in 2013 and is riven by rivalry between rebels, military and militias. Kudumoch Nyakurono, the information minister of neighbouring Boma state, said his government is trying to find the culprits. “There are some villages which were attacked by some youth from Murle in Pibor,” said Nyakurono, State Information Minister of Boma.

Source: The Express Tribune November 29, 2017 09:33 UTC