Rumamer County News Today

The Abyei Civil Society Organization (ACSO) is calling on the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) to promptly investigate the alleged “attempted murder of the Abyei Special Administrative Area Minister of Local Government and Rumamer County commissioner.”

Five abductees, including a little girl, were released in Rumamer County, Abyei, according to authorities from the Abyei Area and Twic County in Warrap State.

A government official in the Abyei Administrative Area has said eleven commuters were ambushed and killed in Rumamer County on Friday allegedly by rebels loyal to General Stephen Buay Rolnyang, who leads the rebel outfit South Sudan People’s Movement/ Army (SSPM/A).

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The paramount chief of the Ngok Dinka people in the disputed Abyei area which straddles the border of South Sudan and Sudan on Friday called for the trial or release of Abyei local government officials and officers of the SSPDF who were detained for allegedly fueling the Twic-Ngok conflict.

The Ngok Dinka of the Abyei Administrative Area and the Twic community of Warrap State on Monday signed a cessation of hostilities agreement in Northern Bahr el Ghazal's Aweil Town with a commitment to promote peaceful coexistence.

The committee investigating the recent Twic-Ngok Dinka clashes arrived in Abyei town on Wednesday to interview officials and people there.

The Abyei Youth Union in a statement issued on Wednesday said it has rescinded calls for the expulsion from the area of 38 workers who hail from the neighboring Twic County of Warrap State.

Save the Children has relocated three staff from Agok in the Abyei Administrative Area, a contested territory between Sudan and South Sudan, following a violent attack on Friday 11 February, the aid agency said in a press release on Tuesday evening.