Betrayed by Their Own Government: Western Bahr el-Ghazal MPs Suffer in Silence

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‎ Western Bahr El Ghazal State Assembly.  ‎At least 40 lawmakers in Western Bahr el-Ghazal State are reportedly bedridden without proper medical care due to the state government's failure to pay their medical allowances since they took office in 2020, according to a legislative spokesperson.  ‎ ‎Joseph Mawut Athian, spokesperson for the Western Bahr el-Ghazal Transitional Legislative Assembly, told the media that the sick legislators lack even travel funds to seek treatment in Juba.  ‎ ‎“We have about 40 MPs who are sick and without even the tickets for travel to Juba,” Athian said.  ‎ ‎He accused executive members of using state funds for flights abroad both for medical treatment and personal trips while lawmakers struggle without basic resources.  ‎ ‎“We are seeing some officials within the executive flying to Juba, Kenya and elsewhere, yet even our speaker has no car to travel to the Lokoloko neighborhood within Wau,” he said.  ‎ ‎Athian said the assembl...

South Sudan Bishops Asked Government To Arrest People Responsible For The Killing Of Over 27 Civilians In Kajo-Keji County



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South Sudan Catholic Bishops have called on the the government of south Sudan Sudan to vigilantly apprehend the people responsible for the lost of lives in Kajo-Keji County. 

While speaking to the media today on Tuesday, Stephen Ameyu the Archbishop of Catholic Diocese of Juba pleaded with South Sudan Government to take necessary measures to apprehend the culprits. 

“We, the catholic bishops ask the government of South Sudan to take serious steps to apprehend the killers and put them to law, no killing is justifiable, God blesses you.” Archbishop Ameyu said. 

He was commenting on the recent attack that led to lost of over 27 lives in Kajo-Keji County near Uganda boarder. 

The incident is believed to be a revenge killing following an incident that cost the cattle raiders over 400 cattles by un-identified men. 

South Sudan Red Cross Society said that four of their volunteers deployed in that region to synthesize the community on Ebola also were among the people killed. 

Kajo-Keji County, covers an area of approximately 113,000 km² bordering Uganda in the South, Yei River County in the West, Juba County in the North and the River Nile in the East.





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