SSPDF forces on April 26, 2019. [Photo: Nation Media Group]
The government of South Sudan has deployed military forces along the Juba-Nimule and the Juba-Yei highways to provide security after a recent spate of ambushes and killings.
More than 10 people including foreigners were killed and three trucks were set ablaze last week. Following the insecurity, Ugandan and Kenyan truck drivers and traders went on strike at the Elegu border town in Uganda and demanded security assurances for them to resume travel into South Sudan.
The government says the deployment was completed on Tuesday by South Sudan’s military high command.
SSPDF spokesman, Gen. Santo Domic, told Radio Tamazuj, “We have deployed several military forces on all the highways and even yesterday but one the chief of the army himself went to the scene and now we have increased the number of forces on the highways.”