Eleven killed in clashes between Pibor and Kapoeta Youth

11 killed as Pibor, Kapoeta East youth clash in Verthet - Radio Tamazuj

The local authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have said four local youth and seven others suspected to be from Eastern Equatoria State’s Kapoeta East County were killed in clashes in the area’s Verthet County on Wednesday. GPAA Information Minister Jacob Werchum Jouk told Radio Tamazuj that the clashes started after the local youths who were herding cattle spotted and ambushed the youth from Eastern Equatoria, whom they s…

Eleven killed in clashes between Pibor and Kapoeta Youth

Authorities in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area have reported that eleven people were killed in inter-communal violence on Wednesday involving local youth and youth from Greater Kapoeta in Eastern Equatoria State. According to Jacob Werchum, the Minister of Information in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, four residents from Pibor and seven attackers were killed during the clashes in Morech at Moruwo headquarter of Verteth County. Werc…