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Over 7,000 returnees need food, health care in Pajok, EES
Photo: Internally displaced persons seated under a tree in Yei. (Radio Tamazuj)
The Member of Parliament representing the women of Magwi County in the Eastern Equatoria State Legislative Assembly, Angela Achiro Onorio, has said more than 7,000 voluntary returnees in Pajok Payam are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
The returnees are new arrivals since last month to date who came from Palabek refugee camp in neighboring Uganda and consist of mostly women and children.
“We got many issues, one of which is that many people have returned and the figure on the ground is 7,061 people who have voluntarily returned to Pajok. It is a big number and people are coming every day according to the Payam administrator and they require humanitarian services,” Achiro said.
Torit man commits suicide over bride price
Residents of Torit town’s Malakia residential area were gripped by shock on Tuesday when their 20-year-old neighbor, Khamis Nartisio, was found hanging in his house after committing suicide occasioned by his failure to pay the bride price.
According to the police, the in-laws of the deceased had been demanding that he pay an elopement fee (kasurubet) which he could not raise, leading to him taking his own life.
Major Justine KelopusTakuru, the police spokesman in Torit told radio Tamazuj on Thursday, “There is a boy, young in age, he hanged himself at Hai Malakia and a complaint was placed and the police went and we went we found the boy called Khamis Nartisio about 20 years from Murle tribe a resident of Hai Malakia dead there.”
Participants at Small scale business training in Nimule Friday 15th January 2021. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj]
At least 400 vulnerable men and women are receiving basic business skills training for ten days in Nimule town of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state, for empowerment and self-reliance purposes.
The training which started last Friday is organized by Peace Link Foundation or PLF in collaboration with the Agency for Research Development Initiative or ARDI and supported by the UNDP.
Charles Okullu Cypriano the Executive Director for PLF says the training will come in handy when the beneficiaries receive a start-up fund meant to help them cope with the current economic crisis.