{"id":10359,"date":"2022-02-16T15:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire"},"modified":"2022-02-16T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:39:44","slug":"abyei-market-set-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire","title":{"rendered":"Abyei market set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Authorities in the Abyei Administrative Area have said unknown arsonists set Abyei\u2019s main market on fire in the wee hours of Monday morning and that no suspects had been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Ajak Deng Miyen, the information minister of the Abyei Administrative Area told Radio Tamazuj Monday that a section of the main market burnt down after unknown people set it on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to now, it is not known who and why they set the market on fire because the fire erupted around 2 am (Monday) and it destroyed much of the Market,\u2019\u2019 Minister Deng said. \u201cPeople are investigating and no suspect has been arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;The fire is said to have erupted in one of the restaurants. There is a government team which is assessing the damage and I have not received the assessment of losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several local sources speculated and blamed members of the Twic community of Warrap State whom they allege went to Abyei and burned down the Anet Market on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Twic people who are living in Abyei are the ones who set the market on fire. The same mobs that burnt down the Anet market are part of those who caused the fire tragedy in Abyei,\u201d A man who identified himself only as Lual charged. \u201cThese people live with us in Abyei and we consider them as innocent people and we do not have any problem with them but they did something bad against us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A humanitarian worker who spoke on condition of anonymity said the fire started at 1:30 am and that all the shops in the market were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the fire at 1:30 am when it started in the Abyei market and after some minutes I heard gunshots and the market burned continuously until morning. I went and witnessed the damage around 6 am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. Authorities in the Abyei Administrative Area have said unknown arsonists set Abyei\u2019s main market on fire in the wee hours of Monday morning and that no suspects had been apprehended. Ajak Deng Miyen, the information minister of the Abyei Administrative Area told Radio Tamazuj Monday that a section of the main market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abyei market set on fire - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Authorities in the Abyei Administrative Area have said unknown arsonists set Abyei\u2019s main market on fire in the wee hour ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abyei market set on fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Authorities in the Abyei Administrative Area have said unknown arsonists set Abyei\u2019s main market on fire in the wee hour ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-16T15:59:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-16T16:39:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/02\/img-620d28b94315d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Abyei market set on fire\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-16T15:59:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-16T16:39:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire\"},\"wordCount\":318,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/02\/img-620d28b94315d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/abyei-market-set-on-fire\",\"name\":\"Abyei market set on fire - 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