On the eve of Pope Francis arrival from the republic of congo,twenty seven people have died in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state. The clash that led to this massacre was between the cattle headers and the members of the militia according to reports.
The incident happened on Thursday, according to a local official.The pope is set to arrive from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hoping to revive a peace process aimed at ending a decade of conflict fought mostly on ethnic lines that has killed hundreds of thousands of people source
Being of high demand to restore peace which has been long sought, there was a peace deal signed between 2013 to 2018 in South Sudan which went a long way to reduce the clashing and violence between the two parties which are the cattle headers and the members of the militia, but at some point their flares up misunderstanding which ignites the disarray again.
Kajo-Keji county commissioner Phanuel Dumo according to his report stated that there was a misunderstanding between the members of the militia which caused an uproar and ended up to a clash that prompted the members of the militia kill six people from the herding community. In response to this clash as a retaliation from the herders they killed 21 person's both young and old from the members of the militia on Thursday.
This being a continued process that has been going on between the two groups and they clash every now and again which always end with deaths of people in quite their number adding to casualties of the war. The recent killing being of great level that it touched the heart of the pope.
In anguish and agony this two opposite groups has lead to themselves as they battle on each other. Pope Francis being a religious leader acted out on his belief as he urged and pleaded between the two groups for the restoration of peace.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/3/south-sudan-violence-kills-27-on-eve-of-popes-visit