{"id":42412,"date":"2026-01-26T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=42412"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:06:54","slug":"sspdf-orders-civilians-to-vacate-spla-io-controlled-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/sspdf-orders-civilians-to-vacate-spla-io-controlled-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPDF : Orders civilians to vacate SPLA-IO controlled areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Lodu William Odiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The South Sudan People\u2019s Defense forces (SSPDF) has ordered civilians to vacate Nyirol, Uror and Akobo County, areas controlled by Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO).<br \/>\nIn a press statement issued by Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang, Director for media, press and spokesperson of the SSPDF, civilians were directed to leave the areas immediately.<br \/>\n\u201cWith imminent of \u201cOperation enduring peace\u201d all civil population in SPLA-IO controlled areas of Nyirol, Uror and Akobo are directed to immediately evacuate for the safety to government-controlled areas as soon as possible\u201d Lul stated.<br \/>\nHe added that armed civilians not interested in fighting with government forces must immediately handover their riffles to the nearest SSPDF\u2019s garrison without further unnecessary delays.<br \/>\n\u201cYouth are not part and parcel of the white army should move their families and livestock to the nearest government-controlled areas.<br \/>\nLul further warned that any civilian found loitering in and around SPLA-IO barracks, assembly areas and rally grounds would be considered as legitimate military targets.<br \/>\nHe also gave a forty hours ultimatum for all the non-governmental organizations and UNMISS personnels operating and working in Nyirol, Uror and Akobo counties to leave the areas.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, a statement that was issued by South Sudan UN human right commission underscored that the current escalation is not isolated incident, but part of a wider political breakdown driven by sustained violations of the peace agreement.<br \/>\nThey emphasized that the conflict in South Sudan signals the erosion of command discipline in an already volatile and ethically fractured environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lodu William Odiya The South Sudan People\u2019s Defense forces (SSPDF) has ordered civilians to vacate Nyirol, Uror and Akobo County, areas controlled by Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO). In a press statement issued by Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang, Director for media, press and spokesperson of the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/sspdf-orders-civilians-to-vacate-spla-io-controlled-areas\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42412","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\/2026\/01\/SSPF.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42412","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=42412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42416,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42412\/revisions\/42416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}