{"id":11005,"date":"2022-12-05T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:54:12","slug":"rebel-factions-trade-accusations-over-attack-in-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/rebel-factions-trade-accusations-over-attack-in-tonga\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Rebel factions trade accusations over attack in Tonga<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO) Kitgwang declaration under Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual and SPLM\/A-IO under Dr. Riek Machar have traded accusations over attack in Tonga Payam of Upper Nile State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Military Spokesperson for SPLM\/A-IO Kitgwang declaration Alfred Gach Thot wrote in his Facebook wall accusing the SPLA-IO under Dr. Riek Machar of attacking their bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis morning on 5<sup>th <\/sup>12, 2022 at 5.00AM, the SPLA-IO none unified forces of Riek Machar under the command of Jok Kuach in Phow has attacked the SPLA-IO Kitwang declaration military base in Tonja,\u201d he alleged, adding that \u201cthe attackers were made to cross the river where they came from the SPLA-IO KD under the Command of Gen. Nhial Kuol,\u201d Thot wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, The Military spokesperson of SPLM\/A-IO Machar\u2019s faction, Col. Lam Paul rubbished the accusation leveled on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He instead accused the Kitgwang military camp of Gen. Gatwech saying they were the ones that launched the attack and not the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe did not join any operation with Kitwang instate they have even attacked our forces in Tonga,\u201d Col. Lam responded to the allegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, both the parties haven\u2019t reported any causalities from both sides neither on the civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, OCHA earlier reported that the escalation intensified and conflict in Tonga resulted to displacement of thousands of people across several areas between Malakal and Tonga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Upper Nile State, as of 21<sup>st<\/sup> August, 2022, rapid assessment estimated that 2,000 people fled from Tonga to Agunjuok, over 3,000 people fled to Abujop and further 2,000 people arrived to Adidyang (25 km from Malakal\/40 minutes by boats).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OCHA said in Malakal, 298 people arrived at the Protection of Civilians (PoCs) sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO) Kitgwang declaration under Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual and SPLM\/A-IO under Dr. Riek Machar have traded accusations over attack in Tonga Payam of Upper Nile State. The Military Spokesperson for SPLM\/A-IO Kitgwang declaration Alfred Gach Thot wrote in his Facebook<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/rebel-factions-trade-accusations-over-attack-in-tonga\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11006,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}