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Families of Pieri plane crash victims demand compensation A cargo plane appears to have gone off of a runway at Renk airstrip on June 6, 2020. (Radio Tamazuj photo) Families of the 10 passengers who perished in a deadly plane crash at the Pieri Airstrip in Uror County of Jonglei state are demanding compensation months after the crash.  On March 2, a small aircraft (HK-4274) belonging to a local company South Supreme Airline crashed shortly after takeoff from an airstrip in Pieri town, killing all the 10 people on board.  Speaking to Radio Tamazuj Monday, families of those who died in the cr...

Residents in Jonglei State have expressed fears about the deteriorating security situation there. The amplified incidents and frequency of violent attacks, ranging from road ambushes to cattle raids, come amidst ongoing efforts aimed at restoring peace and security to the troubled Jonglei region. In the most recent incidents, at least four people were killed, three children abducted and several others injured in deadly road ambushes in the northern part of the state. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, several residents decried the growing insecurity incidents as peace initiatives continue. In late Ma...

Deadly ambush leaves two dead in Jonglei Two people were killed, one injured while four others are still missing after their vehicles were ambushed by armed men on Wednesday while they were traveling from Bor to Uror County in Jonglei State.  Tang Chatim, the Uror County commissioner, told Radio Tamazuj, “On Wednesday afternoon, two vehicles carrying passengers from the state capital, Bor, to Uror were attacked in the outskirts of the Gadiang area. Two people, including former health minister Riek Gai Kok’s wife, Nyawech Lam Makuei, were killed on the spot. Another person was injured whi...

File photo: Zain tower in Rumbek The Zain telecommunications network on Friday resumed services in parts of Uror County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State after it was shut down in 2013.  Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, several county residents, welcomed the resumption, saying they are now connected to the rest of the country after seven years.  “Resumption of the network in Uror County is a very good thing. We, the women of that area are the beneficiaries because we will now be able to hear from our husbands, children, and other family members who left Uror in the past years during the civil wa...

Over 250 head of cattle were stolen during a raid by a group of armed bandits in Pieri Payam, Uror County of Jonglei State over the weekend, local authorities said.