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Over 160 dead in South Sudan tribal clashes
Aug 3, 2009, 14:46 GMT
Nairobi/Juba - More than 160 people, many of them women and children, have died in the latest of a series of clashes between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes in South Sudan, reports said Monday.
Fighters from the Murle tribe attacked a camp in Akobo, Jonglei State, early Monday and butchered over hundred women and children, local officials said.
Akobo commissioner Goi Jooyul Yol said that eleven soldiers from the South Sudan army who were protecting the camp were also killed, the Sudan Tribune reported.
Clashes between the two tribes earlier this year left over 700 dead.
Tribal disputes, mainly over cattle, have long been common in South Sudan.
However, easy access to automatic weapons left over from the decades-long civil war between north and south has ramped up the body count.
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Achol Majok macutAug 3rd, 2009 - 15:50:27
Those are very clear attempts from Nif regime to distort south ability to rule her self. for me, that is the price south sudan has to pay and it will stop as soon as south get independent. The islamic regime will have no body hire and any attempt like this would amount to a war between two states and they know that in khartoum.
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