Opinion: Jonglei State, A Political Ground

I think Buor have now understood what was behind cobra faction, and what was behind Yau Yau appointment as a minister instead of serving life in prison, anything against Bor is what they like to see and hear every day.

By Majur Ahoch-jhok, Juba South Sudan

Juba, May 8, 2017 (Jonglei Times)-When the then Sudanese civil war started in 1983 at Malual Chaat in Bor, koryom battalion was recruited in the name of being given guns to protect themselves from their enemy and a good number turns up (Bor sons) that tells how murle has been a headache to Buor since murle-Bor tribal conflict did not start today, and always murle being the aggressive.

Some of our brothers have seen this as a point of weakness, and they tend to use it to drive Bor politicians and mislead Jonglei civilians to accept every trashed said by government as their government. 

when Bor youths were armed by government to confront white army it wasn`t a national threat, when cobra faction was formed to destabilized Jonglei state it wasn`t a national threat, when Bor civilians were killed on Bor-Juba highway by Mundari it wasn`t a national threat and now that Buor have taken up arms to do a national duty that government have failed to do, Mr. President shamelessly stand up to termed it as a national threat.

I think Buor have now understood what was behind cobra faction, and what was behind Yau Yau appointment as a minister instead of serving life in prison, anything against Bor is what they like to see and hear every day.

Mr. President if this is what is meant of being loyal, or if the Dinka unity is cemented by blood and live of Buor, then let the hell break loose.

enough is enough and we are not coming back,  we are not giving away our weapons, and even if we can build nuclear bomb, we will used it without questioned on murle.

All killings in and around Bor have something to do with the government or some government officials(The Kiir`s boys).

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Opinion: What Does The Future Hold For The People Of Bor?

By Mark Jol Kucha

May 8, 2017 (Jonglei Times)-The struggle we felt in our parents' chromosomes scared the world to disbelief of its sooner end but credit to our liberators for there later seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel.

Hopes, visions, desires and would be done by my countrymen aroused on the sight of the “thought to be lasting peace" at the horizon back in the interim days of C P A and even more realistic on the accomplishment of the referendum.

The screams n yells of joy from women n fellow siblings could the heard from the jungles they have lived in all long as they thought were heading for the " heavens" they have been hoping for but all this vanished in thin air all blames to this fateful 2013 that toppled any sense of nationalism and patriotism among my compatriots.

The land that drips with oil, sprouts with yields of all sorts and animals of all kind that every other human had admired as the place to be as so soon turned inhabitable and now the livings have become " living dead" since each one awaits his dismay in every next minute.

My heart goes out in sympathy to the people of Bor who are entangled at the centre of their opposing forces,one by one they are being assassinated ,hated and discriminated but why does nature insists on ruling against us even when we persist to be fair to all?.

My little once promising town of Bor as all long been chosen as the battle field ,reduced to ashes, flooded with pools of blood and its streets littered with ever drying bones of its innocent inhabitants, majority of whom have never seen a mere road as they continue to swim in flood from village to village year after the other.

countable as we are left ,the multitude continue to converge against us even when there is barely anything left to be robbed as all my siblings have been abducted ,herds raided and the able have had their lives terminated .

The elderly and the young continue to starve to dryness like maize stocks in the localities as each day pass by courtesy of ever suffocating economy not forgetting those who target them in their gardens and with all this at home one would be tempted to think those in the diaspora sit in the lap of luxury yet the difference is the similarity.

A case study being the nasty ethic targeting against my people in the joined refugee camp late alone my encounter in this particular camp where the thousands that pass a point each minute speak my mother taught, here the " blessed" have a single meal of " yellow flour " and rest of them coil with their rambling empty stomach each night, with education far pegged among their numerous necessities that have turned out of reach.

What then if not doom does the future hold for us? It’s high time we gave equal but opposition reaction to all these actions as the situation is clear to be survival for the fittest .may humanity judge accordingly.

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UN Says Over 1 Million Children Have Fled South Sudan

 "Refugee families fleeing to neighboring countries in search of shelter and safety are facing a double catastrophe this rainy season, with children most at risk from the health and protection risks associated with inadequate shelter," the UN agencies said in a joint statement.

by Jonglei Times Senior correspondent in Juba

JUBA, May 8, 2017 (Jonglei Times) --Two UN agencies said Monday that over 1 million children have fled South Sudan due to escalating armed conflict, China's Xinhua News Agency, says.

Latest figures by UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) show that children make up 62 percent of the more than 1.8 million refugees from South Sudan and that most have arrived in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan.

"Refugee families fleeing to neighboring countries in search of shelter and safety are facing a double catastrophe this rainy season, with children most at risk from the health and protection risks associated with inadequate shelter," the UN agencies said in a joint statement.

The agencies said children remain at risk of recruitment by armed forces and groups and, with traditional social structures damaged, are also increasingly vulnerable to violence, sexual abuse and exploitation.

South Sudan has faced ongoing challenges since a political face-off between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar erupted into full-blown conflict in December 2013. The crisis has produced one of the world's worst displacement situations with immense suffering for civilians.

Despite the August 2015 peace agreement that formally ended the war, conflict and instability have also spread to previously unaffected areas in the Greater Equatoria and Greater Bahr-El-Ghazal regions of South Sudan.

The UN agencies said over 75,000 refugee children in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and DR Congo have crossed South Sudan's borders either unaccompanied or separated from their families.

UNICEF's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Leila Pakkala said the shocking fact that nearly one in five children in South Sudan has been forced to flee their home illustrates how devastating this conflict has been for the country's most vulnerable.

The UN agencies said over 1,000 children have been killed or injured since the conflict first erupted in 2013 in South Sudan, while an estimated 1.14 million children have been internally displaced.

Nearly three quarters of the country's children are out of school, the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the world, the agencies said.

Valentin Tapsoba, UNHCR's Africa Bureau Director, said the humanitarian community need most urgent, committed and sustainable support to be able to save their lives.

"No refugee crisis today worries me more than South Sudan. That refugee children are becoming the defining face of this emergency is incredibly troubling," Tapsoba said

The UN agencies said the trauma, physical upheaval, fear and stress experienced by so many children account for just part of toll the crisis is exacting.

"Much greater support is needed to ensure that every refugee family has somewhere safe to live, as well as urgent humanitarian assistance including food, water, protection, education and medical care," the agencies said.

 

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Jonglei youth over run Gurumuk county headquarters: Boma state Official

 Bor\Juba, May 8, 2017 (Jonglei Times)-youth from Jonglei have capture Gumuruk town on Saturday, local official from Boma state told Jonglei Times on Monday.

Peter Labelel, one of the Boma state officials said that Jonglei youth attacked Gumuruk town, killed hundreds of people and burnt houses in town.

Actually, hundreds of people have been killed, we don’t have clear number we don’t access to the areas, Most of them are children, women and elderly peter said.

Peter said since the fighting erupted in Katheleen, Manyicgak, manyabol and spreads to Gumuruk and nearby villages have led to displacement of over 5000 persons from their homes and they are heading toward Pibor town.

They are even killing livestock’s I don’t why they killing them, Peter ask?

He say Jonglei youth should respect us, we told them we are collecting your abducted children and raided cattle’s and return them back to you but they don’t want to listen.

He urges Jonglei youth to withdraw from Boma state territory and go for peace talks as the only core to bring peace to the region.

Last week, Boma state information minister, Achuan John said the state governor requested his Jonglei state counterpart to call back the youth, amid assurance they will recover the cattle.

“We have collected 35 heads of cattle, and we want to return them to Jonglei state. We are working hard to return the cattle, but they did not give us the chance. The civilians keeping cattle are not around, they are in far areas like Kongkong and Jom because of the dry season”, he said.

However, Ayuen Guet Roor, the spokesperson for Jonglei state youth denied accusation saying that we did not enter to Gumuruk town; we are still in our border town of Pan Mach Bol in Anyidi county of Jonglei state.

It’s on Saturday; we clash with Boma state youth between Gumuruk and Pan Mach Bol defending ourselves Ayuen told Jonglei Times on Monday.

Ayuen say we shall not go for peace talks unless 180 children abducted and 200, 000 herds of cattle’s are return then we shall go for peace talks.

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Vivacell network back on air in Bor

Bor, May 8, 2017 (Jonglei Times)-Access to Vivacell mobile network has been activated in Jonglei state after nearly four days of shutdown over unstated reason.

We are now backed on air and we have apologized to our customers for the inconvinced said one of Vivacell officer in Bor.

Vivacell’s main antenna in Jonglei state went off-air on Thursday night last week over unclear circumstance. Government official told Jonglei Times on Monday in Bor.

Residents in Bor could be seen busy on mobile phones accessing their families and colleagues.

“Am so glad after staying for four days without accessing my relatives. As you can see the network is now on and we hope that it will not go off again,” said mobile user in Bor.

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