{"id":39856,"date":"2025-09-19T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=39856"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:18:34","slug":"ethiopia-finally-freed-27-south-sudanese-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/ethiopia-finally-freed-27-south-sudanese-from-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia finally freed 27 South Sudanese from jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Lodu William Odiya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International corporation has yesterday confirmed the release of 27 South Sudanese who were jailed in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry\u2019s Spokesperson, Amb. Apuk Ayuel Mayen, told journalists during the weekly media briefing on Thursday that the government had been engaging with the counterpart in order to release the jailed Youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have good news; the ministry has been engaging with the government of Ethiopia in regards of this 27 youth. They were actually jailed but now hey are released and they are waiting transportation back to the country\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, Ambassador Ayuel told Journalist that cattle herders from Eastern Equatoria, accidentally crossed the international border while armed and were subsequently arrested by Ethiopian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese 27 youths from Eastern Equatoria accidentally crossed the international border. They were cattle herders and they were armed. And they faced detention on the other side,\u201d Ambassador Ayuel told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the herders, who are from Eastern Equatoria state, were detained in Muzan Prison after allegedly crossing into Ethiopia illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of had been pursuing the matter through diplomatic channels with the government of Ethiopia since their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Having a good history of bilateral\u00a0relations,\u00a0South Sudan\u00a0and\u00a0Ethiopia\u00a0have focused on improving bilateral\u00a0relations\u00a0in terms of security. The Heads of State also emphasized the building of\u00a0relations\u00a0through public\u00a0diplomacy\u00a0and connect more strongly the people of both nations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lodu William Odiya The South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International corporation has yesterday confirmed the release of 27 South Sudanese who were jailed in Ethiopia. The Ministry\u2019s Spokesperson, Amb. Apuk Ayuel Mayen, told journalists during the weekly media briefing on Thursday that the government had been engaging<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/ethiopia-finally-freed-27-south-sudanese-from-jail\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39856","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\/09\/JAIL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39856","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=39856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39858,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39856\/revisions\/39858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}