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Mad Cow: How bride-price inflation is stoking ethnic violence in South Sudan
Mad Cow: How bride-price inflation is stoking ethnic violence in South Sudan
April 16, 2021
Inter-tribal clashes are a major contributing factor to instability in South Sudan, so it is no surprise that an increase in violent cattle raiding has largely been attributed to the current conflict between the Dinka-dominated Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Nuer Sudanese People’s Liberation Army In Opposition (SPLA-IO). Yet these raids, which have led to over 50,000 deaths since the start of the South Sudanese Civil War in December 2013, are not motivated by inter-ethnic animosity alone. In pastoral regions such as Jonglei State, they are also driven by economic factors. Specifically, enormous inflation in bride prices the payment, in heads of cattle, given by a groom to their bride’s family has rendered cattle raiding more frequent and more deadly than ever before.
Five abductees recovered from Nyirol County of Jonglei State were on Monday handed over to Save the Children in the state capital, Bor to be reunited with their families in Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA).
Over 250 head of cattle were stolen during a raid by a group of armed bandits in Pieri Payam, Uror County of Jonglei State over the weekend, local authorities said.
Abducted women, children reunited with families in South Sudan
Saturday April 10 2021
South Sudanese women walk towards the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Malakal on January 12, 2014. During the 2021 Easter weekend, UNMISS reunited abducted women and children with their families. PHOTO | AFP
Summary
UNMISS says the exchange of abducted women and children followed a community-led goodwill agreement between the Lou Nuer, Murle and Dinka Bor ethnic communities.
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The women and children were kidnapped during last year s vicious inter-communal fighting in Jonglei State.
UNMISS says the exchange of abducted women and children followed a community-led goodwill agreement between the Lou Nuer, Murle and Dinka Bor ethnic communities.