By Charles K Mark<\/p>\n
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People continue to run to UN Protection of Civilian Camps, Schools, and Health Centers for safety due to fear of raging communal violence in Tombura County, Western Equatoria State.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A youth leader, Oliver Abdalla describes the scenario as tainted with continued abductions since the unrest ensued five days ago.<\/p>\n \u201cThe county authority is silent,\u201d he pointed.<\/p>\n According to Abdallah, the surge is a result of postponement of a peace conference, meant to bring two rival communities (the Azande and the Balanda) together for peace.<\/p>\n \u201cThe County Authority is not doing anything. People are dying, but the County Authority is just quiet; the commissioner cannot say anything, and he cannot even raise it as a concern,\u201d Abdalla said.<\/p>\n The youth leader confirmed that two people so far have been killed in the unverified conflict, increasing tensions in the county that once witnessed similar communal clashes in 2021.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Tombura County Commissioner, Matthew Mabenge confirming the unrest, claims some elements in the SPLM-IO\u201d are responsible for the worrying situation.<\/p>\n There were also reports of abduction of a police officer and a Catholic priest for unknown reasons, and their whereabouts and fate remain unknown. But unconfirmed reports emerge that they might have been murdered.<\/p>\n The commissioner said most IO forces who refused to report to the cantonment area are loitering in the county and causing chaos.<\/p>\n Mabenge, however, said the county authority is planning to arrest the situation by using force to stabilize security.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to stabilize the situation because we are going to use force now. Whoever causes trouble will be arrested by our forces,\u201d he echoed.<\/p>\n The Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio in Western Equatoria State expressed grave concern over the reoccurrence of violence in Tombura on Saturday and issued a call for the national government\u2019s intervention on the matter.<\/p>\n Diocesean Bishop Barani Edwardo Hiboro Kusala asked President Salva Kiir to declare a state of emergency and rein over the crisis tearing the communities of Tombura County apart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charles K Mark People continue to run to UN Protection of Civilian Camps, Schools, and Health Centers for safety due to fear of raging communal violence in Tombura County, Western Equatoria State. A youth leader, Oliver Abdalla describes the scenario as tainted with continued abductions since the unrest[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24189","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\/04\/Courtesy-photo-IDPs-from-Ezo-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189","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=24189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24192,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions\/24192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}