{"id":5537,"date":"2021-12-06T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:20:55","slug":"jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches","title":{"rendered":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity and road ambushes have continued to claim lives. The state secretary-general Gatwech Koak Nyuon told Radio Tamazuj on Saturday that more than 30 people died last month alone.<\/p>\n

“Despite several peace dialogues, there has been no improvement. In the month of November alone, we lost 34 civilians including three women killed in the Buong area on December 1,” he lamented.<\/p>\n

Koak warned that the situation could escalate if there is no intervention from the neighboring Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) whose youth have been accused of being involved in the rising insecurity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the state leadership, we are engaging the GPAA counterparts to resolve the issue. We do not know what is being done from their side. We know these attackers are criminals but they must do something to stop them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Joseph Mayen Akoon, the state police commissioner, agreed that the security situation is deteriorating and called on those living in the villages in the villages to take precautionary measures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the town like Bor, we are doing patrols. So the security is good. Of course, in the villages, the situation is bad. My message to our people is that they should be defensive of themselves and be vigilant because we will not be able to deploy police to all the roads in our counties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For his part, John Abulla, the deputy GPAA chief administrator, said he is not aware of their youth’s involvement in the attacks in Jonglei state, reiterating that they are committed to restoring peace to the two restive areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we speak, our county commissioners and local chiefs are disseminating peace so that our youth will be in peace with our neighbors,” Abulla said. “Again, we plan that we will celebrate this Christmas as a government in Nanaam on our borders with Jonglei state so that we control our youth.”:<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity and road ambushes have continued to claim lives. The state secretary-general Gatwech Koak Nyuon told Radio Tamazuj on Saturday that more than 30 people died last month alone. “Despite several peace dialogues, there has been no improvement. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-5537","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":"\nJonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity an ...\" \/>\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\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity an ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\" \/>\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=\"2021-12-06T15:32:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-06T16:20:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"520\" \/>\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\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-06T15:32:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-06T16:20:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\"},\"wordCount\":340,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.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\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\",\"name\":\"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches - South Sudan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-06T15:32:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-06T16:20:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity an ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":520,\"caption\":\"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\",\"name\":\"South Sudan\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches - South Sudan","description":"Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity an ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches","og_description":"Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity an ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches","og_site_name":"South Sudan","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-12-06T15:32:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-12-06T16:20:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":520,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches","datePublished":"2021-12-06T15:32:16+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-06T16:20:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches"},"wordCount":340,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.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\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches","name":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches - South Sudan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg","datePublished":"2021-12-06T15:32:16+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-06T16:20:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Jonglei State authorities decry a worsening security situation, saying despite numerous peace initiatives, insecurity an ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3842b2c41.jpg","width":720,"height":520,"caption":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/jonglei-state-security-situation-dire-as-christmas-approaches#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jonglei State: Security situation dire as Christmas approaches"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/","name":"South Sudan","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}