The SPLA-IO allied to Vice President Dr. Riek Machar has rubbished claims that they lost one of their senior military officers at the rank of General during clashes with the breakaway faction led by Gen. Simon Gatwich Dual on 26 December in the Magenis area of Upper Nile State.
The South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) said at least six people, including a police officer, died in different accidents in and around the capital Juba.
Officials and the locals in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) have expressed happiness as humanitarians resumed operations in Pibor town after a month, saying lives have tremendously improved.
Two people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed while three others sustained gunshot wounds when Turkana tribesmen from Kenya attacked Kraals in the South Sudanese border town of Nadapal in Eastern Equatoria State over the weekend.
A High Court in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, on Monday, sentenced a man to death by hanging after finding him guilty of stabbing his cousin to death a month ago.