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Saturday 12 May 2012
May 11, 2012 (BOR) - Three people have been killed and three others injured in attacks allegedly conducted by Murle tribesmen in Jonglei, local officials say, days after a "comprehensive peace deal" was signed between the state’s (...)
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Sunday 6 May 2012
May 5, 2012 (BOR) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir witnessed the signing of peace deal by representatives of Jonglei States six ethnic communities on Saturday in Bor as chiefs expressed reservations over lack of punishment for those (...)
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Wednesday 7 March 2012
March 6, 2012 (JUBA) – More than five people have been killed and more wounded over a land dispute in Juba. The incident pushed President Salva Kiir to deploy security forces to stop the violence and maintain security and calm in the (...)
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Saturday 25 February 2012
February 24, 2012 (JUBA) – Christians in South Sudan are planning a pilgrimage to Israel in fulfillment of what they say was God’s promise in the Bible to the people of the region, senior Church leaders have announced.
FILE - A Bishop (...)
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Friday 27 April 2012
April 26, 2012 (BOR) – Consultative community meetings began in Jonglei on Wednesday as part of the Presidential Peace Committee (PCC) efforts to find a lasting solution to the troubled state’s cattle-raiding and inter-ethnic violence. (...)
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Saturday 5 May 2012
May 4, 2012 (BOR) – Participants of a peace conference in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei State have expressed concern that the current peace talks may not be able to address the underlying causes of violence despite confidence that a (...)
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Tuesday 8 May 2012
May 7, 2012 (JUBA) - The special representative of the secretary-general of the UN for South Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson, on Monday called for the opening of a new chapter of peace between the ethnic groups of the troubled state of Jonglei (...)
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Tuesday 10 April 2012
April 09, 2012 (BOR) – A self-proclaimed “prophet from God” in Jonglei state is thought to be having vast influence among local people, according to local officials.
People displaced by the Jonglei conflict (UN)
Dak Kueth, a Lou-Nuer (...)
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Saturday 31 December 2011
December 31, 2011 (JUBA) – Armed members of the Lou-Nuer ethnic group today attacked Pibor town, home of the Murle tribe, in defiance of efforts by senior politicians to diffuse tension in Jonglei state’s Pibor county.
Lou Nuer youth (...)
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Sunday 11 March 2012
March 10, 2012 (BOR) – Jonglei State’s Akobo commissioner says between 500 and 800 are missing some of them feared dead following Friday’s dawn attack on cattle camps and villages by armed Murle tribesmen.
In this UN file photo of 2009 (...)
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