By AFPMore by this AuthorJUBA,A high court in Juba on Monday charged prominent South Sudanese activist and economist Peter Biar Ajak, 34, with terrorism, after eight months in detention with limited contact with the outside world. Prosecutor Deng Acuil charged Mr Biar and six fellow accused, including businessman and philanthropist Kerbino Agok Wol, who has been jailed since April 2018, with sabotage against the state, banditry, possession of firearms and public disorder. He said Mr Biar "is a civilian who has never touched a gun, held a gun or been involved in any rebellion or any thing to do with the army," Mr Anyang told AFP. Mr Biar is an economist who has worked for the World Bank, studied in the US in Philadelphia and at Harvard, and is studying for his doctorate in Britain's University of Cambridge. The pair had risen to power during Sudan's 1983-2005 civil war between north and south, before South Sudan won independence in 2011.

Source: Daily Nation March 25, 2019 18:45 UTC