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Over 30 senior SPLM members arrested in Bor More than 30 members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party were on Tuesday evening arrested and detained by the police in Bor town, Jonglei State.  Those arrested, most of whom are former constitutional post holders, said their arrest was politically motivated.  One of the detainees, Gabriel Deng Ajak, told Radio Tamazuj Wednesday, “Our arrest is politically motivated. It has nothing to do with defamation. More than 30 of us were arrested because of the petition we wrote to President Kiir against the deputy governor. We were a...

Activist David Garang Goc released, to face trial on Monday David Garang Goc, the chairperson for the coalition group Jonglei Civil Society Network, was released on Saturday after being in Police custody for two days in Bor town.  The civil society activist was arrested on Thursday morning after he accused the state government of allegedly embezzling food donations meant for the flood victims in the state.  The state police commissioner, Joseph Mayen Akoon, told Radio Tamazuj that the activist was released pending a court trial Monday.  “We released activist Garang Goc as required by the...

Woman ‘commits’ suicide in Bor A young woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging on Christmas day in Bor town of Jonglei State, local authorities have said.  John Makuei Alier, the Bor Municipality public health deputy director, told Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday that the unidentified woman was found dead, hanging from a rope at a deserted house in Bor’s Nigel neighborhood last Friday.  “We were informed by the locals about the deceased. When we went there, we found her hanging in a house in Nigel. There were no people in the house. It has been deserted due to the floods. The woman wa...

Expired goods impounded in Bor An assortment of expired goods was confiscated during a crackdown at a market in the Jonglei State capital, Bor, authorities have said. Kuol Monykuc Atem, the head of Grades, Standards and Measures Bureau in Jonglei, told Radio Tamazuj that some of the expired food items were confiscated during the exercise carried out at Bor’s Marol market last week. “Daily, we carry out inspections on shops in Bor. So, last week, we confiscated food items like 230 crates of soda and 210 crates of other soft drinks plus other items. We impounded them in a shop within the ma...