South Sudan: UN Urges Reconciliation As 40 Die in Ethnic Violence in Jonglei

9 December 2011

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan today stressed the need to press ahead with the reconciliation process in Jonglei state where another outbreak of inter-ethnic violence earlier this week left more than 40 people dead, most of them women, children and the elderly.

The killings on Monday in the villages of Jalle payam (or local district), Bor South county, and Twic East county underline the importance of the Jonglei peace process, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a press release. Homes were burned and large numbers of livestock stolen during the raids.

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