By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
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President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the governor of Warrap to stabilize security across his state following recent violence and tensions.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n According to a statement from office of the president, Kiir issued the directive during a meeting with Kuol Mour Mour at presidential palace, on Thursday.<\/p>\n In August last year, fighting erupted between the communities of Gogrial East County and Jur River County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, over land ownership, which saw a recurrence of the same issue this month.<\/p>\n The inter-communal tensions have ever since intensified with revenge attacks, including targeted ambushes on travelers across the neighbouring communities.<\/p>\n President Kiir has been issuing several decrees to relieve political stakeholders and leaders to bring about change, but his efforts have not yielded any fruit.<\/p>\n Instead of resorting to making changes most often, Kiir opted this time to push the current governor of Warrap State, whose communities have been involved in inter-communal violence, to ensure that calm is sustained within the state and among its neighbours.<\/p>\n The President directed the Governor, not only to stabilize security but also to initiate free dialogue among the conflicting parties for peace to prevail.<\/p>\n According to the statement, governor accepted president\u2019s directives and promised to restore calm.<\/p>\n \u201cGovernor Kuol Muor Muor said he was leaving the state to address the current situation, following inter-communal skirmishes in parts of the state,\u2019\u2019 reads part of the statement from the president\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the governor of Warrap to stabilize security across his state following recent violence and tensions. According to a statement from office of the president, Kiir issued the directive during a meeting with Kuol Mour Mour at presidential palace, on[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/President-Salva-Kiir-R-and-Warrap-State-Governor-Kuol-Muor-Muor-L-Courtesy-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21728,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726\/revisions\/21728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}