{"id":38246,"date":"2025-08-04T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=38246"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:15:02","slug":"bishop-calls-for-urgent-intervention-in-tambura-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/bishop-calls-for-urgent-intervention-in-tambura-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop calls for urgent intervention in Tambura conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rt. Rev. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tambura and Yambio counties | Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Alan Clement<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Catholic Bishop of Tambura and Yambio counties, Rt. Rev. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, has called on the National government to intervene in Tambura County as conflict surge.<\/p>\n

The bishop called on the Government of South Sudan and citizens across the country to act urgently and decisively to end years of violence and human suffering.<\/p>\n

Rt. Rev. Kussala described Tambura\u2019s situation as a \u201chumanitarian tragedy and moral failure\u201d citing four years of continuous bloodshed, displacement, and fear that have left communities shattered and families living in destitution, in a strongly worded message released on August 1st<\/sup>, 2025 by the bishop\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur people live under plastic sheeting, drink unsafe water, walk in fear, and bury their loved ones in silence,\u201d the bishop wrote. \u201cLet Tambura be our turning point; a sacred place where the nation chooses healing over hatred, truth over propaganda, and hope over despair.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bishop urged the national government to take swift actions to end the suffering in Tambura County. According to the bishop\u2019s message, such actions include, declaring Tambura a zone of urgent national peace intervention, deploying additional protection forces, disarming all illegal armed groups, and punishing those inciting tribal hatred and spreading misinformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe write as shepherds, as fellow citizens, and as children of one God,\u201d the bishop stated, invoking the spirit of unity and national conscience. \u201cLet Martyrs\u2019 Day, Wednesday, July 30th, be your moment of honor. Let it be remembered that on this day, you chose peace for Tambura,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In the broader South Sudanese context, Bishop Kussala emphasized that Tambura\u2019s suffering is a reflection of a national pain and called for elders, women, youth, and religious communities to rise collectively as agents of peace, and appealed to the international community not to look away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the violence continues,\u201d he warned, \u201centire communities will disappear, tribal hatred will metastasize, and generations of youth will be lost to revenge and violence. We will be judged not for what we said, but for what we refused to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bishop offered a vision of hope if peace is chosen; a return to normalcy in Tambura, children back in schools, and reconciliation across divided communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Bishop of Tambura-Yambio, I pledge to walk with victims, offer the Church as a platform for reconciliation, and pray without ceasing for peace,\u201d he declared. He pledged to walk with victims, offer the Church as a platform for reconciliation, and pray without ceasing for peace,\u201d<\/p>\n

His message comes as violence in parts of the region continues to threaten stability, drawing renewed attention to the need for cohesive national efforts toward reconciliation and peacebuilding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Alan Clement The Catholic Bishop of Tambura and Yambio counties, Rt. Rev. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, has called on the National government to intervene in Tambura County as conflict surge. The bishop called on the Government of South Sudan and citizens across the country to act urgently and decisively to[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38246","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\/2025\/08\/bishop-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38246","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38248,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38246\/revisions\/38248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}