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A tragic incident unfolded in Ongelet village, Bur Payam, Torit County, South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State, as 48-year-old Francis Amarwahii lost his life in a revenge attack on Wednesday.
A 40-year-old man was injured in Lafon County and an unspecified number of cattle stolen following cattle raids in Eastern Equatoria State's Torit County on Sunday.
Demining firm suspends work along Torit-Lafon road over insecurity UNMISS peacekeepers from Rwanda and military observers recently rescued 20 United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) workers who were ambushed in Longiro, Eastern Equatoria. [Photo: UNMISS] G4S Global, a company contracted by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has suspended activities along the Torit-Lafon road in Eastern Equatoria State due to insecurity in the area. Earlier this month, vehicles belonging to G4S Global came under attack along the Oudo-Loronyo-Longiro road by a group of gunmen who looted all the...
Torit man commits suicide over bride price Residents of Torit town’s Malakia residential area were gripped by shock on Tuesday when their 20-year-old neighbor, Khamis Nartisio, was found hanging in his house after committing suicide occasioned by his failure to pay the bride price. According to the police, the in-laws of the deceased had been demanding that he pay an elopement fee (kasurubet) which he could not raise, leading to him taking his own life. Major Justine KelopusTakuru, the police spokesman in Torit told radio Tamazuj on Thursday, “There is a boy, young in age, he hanged him...
Polio vaccination campaign underway in Eastern Equatoria State Eastern Equatoria state last Friday launched a mass polio vaccination campaign targeting more than 300,000 children under five years of age. Authorities say the campaign which is expected to continue for five days, is in response to 15 confirmed cases across the country including Torit county recently. Eastern Equatoria state Expanded Program on Immunization or EPI manager Mr. Oler Charles Adelino says the campaign will reach all the state's eight counties. “We were certified as a country free from polio but unfortunately in f...