{"id":28809,"date":"2022-12-12T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/spla-io-denies-being-part-of-sspdf-operations-against-white-army-in-upper-nile"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:41:08","slug":"spla-io-denies-being-part-of-sspdf-operations-against-white-army-in-upper-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/spla-io-denies-being-part-of-sspdf-operations-against-white-army-in-upper-nile","title":{"rendered":"SPLA-IO denies being part of SSPDF operations against \u2018White Army\u2019 in Upper Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s main armed opposition Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) under the overall command of First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has denied that it is a part of the ongoing operation against armed civilians from Jonglei state in Upper Nile state, saying it has no policy to fight civilians.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a local government official in Upper Nile state said last week that an operation by the Necessary Unified Forces (NUF) was ongoing to clear out northern part of the state from armed youth also known as White Army from Jonglei who have been attacking civilians in the Shilluk Kingdom resulting in the displacement of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sudans Post on Sunday morning, SPLA-IO spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel said that the Necessary Unified Forces is not a part of the operations being conducted against the White Army by South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces (SSPDF) in Upper Nile and said that the main armed opposition group does not fight civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, this claim is not true at all. The SPLA-IO doesn\u2019t fight against civilians in any form. The white army, just like any other armed youth organisation, is civilian-based. The claim that the Necessary Unified Force is also taking part in those operations is not true,\u201d he said from Juba.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the presidency announced that the army chief has been instructed by President Salva Kiir Mayardit to deploy troops to Upper Nile where civilians were reportedly being attacked by the Jonglei armed youth.<\/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. South Sudan\u2019s main armed opposition Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) under the overall command of First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has denied that it is a part of the ongoing operation against armed civilians from Jonglei state in Upper Nile state, saying it has no policy to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-28809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","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>SPLA-IO denies being part of SSPDF operations against \u2018White Army\u2019 in Upper Nile - South Sudan<\/title>\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\/spla-io-denies-being-part-of-sspdf-operations-against-white-army-in-upper-nile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPLA-IO denies being part of SSPDF operations against \u2018White Army\u2019 in Upper Nile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. 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