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2023-01-12 Africa Subsaharan
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Three aid workers killed in attacks South Sudan - UN
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[AFRICANEWS] Three aid workers and 11 non-combatants were killed in early January in attacks by button men in South Sudan, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and local authorities said Wednesday.
"In the first days of the year, three South Sudanese aid workers who were helping others paid the highest price with their lives," said Peter Van der Auweraert, OCHA's head of mission in the African country.
Two of them were victims of an attack by gunnies, which left others dead, on January 2 in a village in the oil-rich Abyei administrative area, the UN agency said.
A total of 14 people, including women and kiddies, died in the attack, which was attributed to youths from neighbouring Twic county, Abyei front man Ajak Deng told AFP.
The disputed region, which is under UN protection, has been on the border between Sudan and South Sudan since the latter declared independence in 2011.
The death of the third aid worker occurred the same week while monitoring humanitarian supplies in the east-central state of Jonglei.
These three deaths are in addition to the nine killed last year and five in 2021.
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