Sudan: Jonglei to Hold Urgent Inter-Tribal Peace Conference

29 July 2011

Bor — The interior minister for the newly-independent Republic of South Sudan, Gier Chuang Aluang, a son of Jonglei, accused politicians and intellectuals of causing problems at the grass roots level in Jonglei state at a meeting in Bor on Wednesday.

Insecurity is a major problem in South Sudan especially in Jonglei which has been blighted by the presence of rebel groups, cattle rustling and child kidnapping despite a 2005 peace deal, which ended decades of North-South conflict.

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