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| UN says south Sudan tribal violence ŽŽworryingŽŽ |
| 2009-05-09 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Tribal violence in south Sudan that has killed hundreds of people in recent weeks is worrying and the region cannot afford another war, a senior U.N. official said on Friday. Attacks stemming from disputes over cattle have escalated in recent months in south Sudan between two rival ethnic groups in an area where livestock are prized by southern pastoralists and represent wealth, status and stability in fraught times. "The scale of conflict, scale of death, scale of destruction is really worrying," U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes told journalists in Akobo in south Sudan's Jonglei state that is the scene of the fighting. "It suggests there's a real problem about how to reconcile the communities, because this fighting has not necessarily stopped," Holmes said, adding: "We saw people with bullet wounds which are quite recent. So there's a real fear this fighting will restart ... This area cannot afford another war." |
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