By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
Authorities in Tonj North County, located in South Sudan\u2019s Warrap State, report that at least three people were killed during a cattle raid on Monday, according to police sources.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The incident occurred between two groups, the Nooi and Lier sections, both part of the Awill community in Tonj North.<\/p>\n Officials believe that the cattle raiders came from the Nooi section and attacked the Lier section, stealing hundreds of cattle as an act of revenge for previously looted herds.<\/p>\n The acting police inspector in Tonj North described the event as a troubling trend, saying, \u201cTwo people died from the Nooi section, who many believe instigated the attack on the Lier section, and two others from the Lier group.\u201d<\/p>\n He explained that the Nooi section felt aggrieved due to the significant loss of cattle they suffered in the past, which led to their retaliatory actions against the Lier cattle herders.<\/p>\n The inspector urged for calm, emphasizing that such acts are uncivilized and detrimental to promoting peaceful coexistence in the county and the state as a whole.<\/p>\n Tonj North has been experiencing sporadic incidents of cattle raiding and revenge killings, despite government efforts to disarm offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou Authorities in Tonj North County, located in South Sudan\u2019s Warrap State, report that at least three people were killed during a cattle raid on Monday, according to police sources. The incident occurred between two groups, the Nooi and Lier sections, both part of the Awill community[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-warrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cattle-Kraal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980","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=32980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32982,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions\/32982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}