An attack on the village of Wernyol in the Jonglei State in South Sudan has left 47 dead, including the Archdeacon of Wernyol, the Ven Joseph Mabior Garang.
On the morning of Aug 28 approximately 1,000 gunmen attacked the village “coming to take the cattle, and to loot and steal,” Maj Gen Kuol Diem Kuol of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) told Al-Jazeera.
“There was only a small police force based in Wernyol, and they were soon overrun, but nearby SPLA platoons heard the shooting and rushed to the area” and restored order, Gen Kuol said.
Thanks for posting this – it is rather strange that I am the first person to comment on this posting (on Sept 12). If the Primate of Sudan had said something about homosexuality there would certainly by a long string of opinions. How sad that we in the West look to Africa with our ecclesiatical problems but we are, it seems, so uninterested in their problems.