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Over 200 stolen cattle returned to owners in Lainya A fact-finding committee tasked to resolve the conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Lainya County said it had recovered over 200 heads of cattle from the herders last week. The committee said the recovered cattle were handed over to the chiefs and owners on Friday. Aggrey Cyrus, the chairperson of the committee told Radio Tamazuj that the Pojulu and Mundari communities agreed to return stolen cattle to pave way for peaceful co-existence in the state. “Following the reconciliatory talks between the two communities, we have so far ...

South Sudan: Humanitarian Snapshot (December 2020) Format People continued to reel from the impacts of flooding which affected over 1 million people in 2020. Physical access to the hardest-hit Jonglei and Greater Pibor Administrative Area remained challenging, deepening people’s vulnerabilities. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report estimated that 5.8 million people, almost half of the population, were likely to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity in December, an increase by over 1 million from the same time last year. This included about...

Lainya: Gumbiri Radio resumes operations Gumbiri Community Radio station, 102.6 FM, in Lainya County of Central Equatoria State has resumed broadcasts after being off-air for more than two months. The station’s program manager, Levi Lucky Joseph, told Radio Tamazuj on Wednesday that the radio’s transmission system and lack of sufficient electricity hamper the station’s operation. According to Lucky, although the transmitter is temporally fixed, inadequate power supply, lack of staff training, and technical equipment remain a big challenge. “The frequency is very low and cannot even re...

SSPDF soldiers set men on fire in Loka: Archbishop File photo Dr. Paul Pitiya Benjamin Yugusuk, the Episcopal Church of South Sudan Archbishop of the Central Equatoria Internal Province said three SSPDF soldiers forced Christians to drink alcohol, looted civilians, and forced five men into a hut before setting it on fire in Lainya County on Christmas Eve.  “I regret to inform all the Christians and the leadership of the church that members of our churches in Loka West have been attacked by three government soldiers. They forced members of the Revival Movement of Loka to drink alcohol,” ...

5 children reunited with families in Yei At least five children have been reunited with their family members in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State after being separated while fleeing violence in Mukaya Payam of Lainya County last year. The children between nine and 17 years of age were traced and reunited by a local child protection NGO, Institute for Promotion of Civil Society (IPCS) with assistance from the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) last week. Paul Ohisa, project manager for IPCS told Radio Tamazuj that his organization took care of the children for about a ye...