By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
Police in Tonj North County of Warrap State reported that at least 10 people have died in a violent clash over the position of an executive chief.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The conflict erupted between two opposing clans, Pan-Kuei and Pan-Arek.<\/p>\n The incident stemmed from the Pan-Kuei clan’s resistance to the removal of their long-serving executive chief, Mawein Dhor Ariik. While the Pan-Arek clan sought his removal, the Pan-Kuei clan staunchly supported his continued leadership.<\/p>\n Police investigator, Ajal Bol Bol, attributed the violence to a longstanding misunderstanding between the two clans.<\/p>\n He explained that the chief, who had held the position for 37 years, successfully defended his leadership in previous local contests, frustrating attempts by his rivals to remove him.<\/p>\n \u201cThe clash occurred over the weekend between Pan-Kuei that claimed the lives of 8 clansmen from their sides and 2 casualties from Pan-Arek who are attempting to remove the chief,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n \u201cThe matter has been ongoing between the two clan. He won the local contests 4 times and he is not losable so people wanted to remove him by force and it caused the clash,\u201d said Bol.<\/p>\n The officer added that six people sustained serious injuries during the fighting and were transported to the hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n Similar incidents, often attributed to cattle rustling and revenge killings, have occurred sporadically in Warrap State.<\/p>\n Investigator Bol assured that calm has been restored to the area following the deployment of security forces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou Police in Tonj North County of Warrap State reported that at least 10 people have died in a violent clash over the position of an executive chief. The conflict erupted between two opposing clans, Pan-Kuei and Pan-Arek. The incident stemmed from the Pan-Kuei clan’s resistance to[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-warrap-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Courtesy-photo-5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528","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=32528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32530,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions\/32530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}