Jonglei

Still Counting the Dead in South Sudan’s Jonglei Conflict

By Enough Project Team on Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Posted by Nenad Marinkovic

JUBA, South Sudan -- The long-standing Lou Nuer-Murle feud in Jonglei state claimed the lives of a large number of civilians when some 6,000 Lou Nuer youth attacked the rival Murle in Pibor town at the end of December and early January. United Nations officials in the country cannot provide the exact number of people killed, but the U.N. estimates that 140,000 people were affected by the violence.

Inter-Communal Violence Displaces as Many as 50,000 People in Jonglei State, South Sudan

By Enough Project Team on Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Renewed inter-communal violence in the restive Jonglei state has recently displaced as many as 50,000 people in and around the town of Pibor, South Sudan.

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