The government in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei state is
putting a curfew on vehicle travel after yet another fatal ambush on the Juba –
Bor interstate road.
Four are feared dead and six wounded following the latest
ambush which occurred near a village named Khormakuch, close
to Bor town. Jonglei state MP Diing Akol said no vehicle is allowed to
leave Bor town after 2:00pm. He is also advising travelers to inform police before
departing.
There have been a number of attacks on the Juba – Bor road
lately. Last week, armed gangs walked
from Eastern Jonglei all the way to Bor town and blocked the
road, refusing to let anyone pass. In a related development, an armed group ransacked stores of
the United Nations in Jonglei state on Saturday and Sunday.
Beko Konyi, the coordinator for the state-run Relief and
Rehabilitation Commission in Pibor confirmed that a hospital and
premises of Doctors without Borders (or MSF) and the premises of Italian
humanitarian aid organization INTERSOS had been looted. An eyewitness working for MSF said drugs
and other assets were taken. Many international aid workers left Pibor last Friday over
concerns of possible attacks.