South Sudan: Upper Nile Parliament Cancels Membership of Missing MPs

10 December 2014

Juba — At least eight legislative assembly members from South Sudan's Upper Nile state have been disowned allegedly due to their unauthorised and long absence from parliament.

The whereabouts of the assembly members, who disappeared after conflict broke out last December, remains unclear. Upper Nile speaker Joseph Deng Barac, named Nasir lawmakers Pal Ruac Doap, Yien Gach Ruey and Duop Tharjiath Nyual as among those who remain out contact.

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