South Sudan: Hundreds Dead in Reprisal Attacks, Proposed Pipeline Scrapped

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A series of cattle raids and reprisal attacks have left around 600 people dead and about a 1000 others injured in South Sudan's Jonglei state.

Reports indicate that the latest wave of violence was triggered by the minority Murle group when they attacked villages of the larger Lou Nuer group in the Wuror and Pibor counties. In the process they destroyed villages, abducted women and children, and seized approximately 30 000 heads of cattle.

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