Currently, the Gambella state special forces and local militia are providing security to the area with a focus on finding the perpetrators. Similar cross border attacks by armed men from neighboring South Sudan happen too often in the region. In April last year, the regional state in collaboration with South Sudan’s Puchala district repatriated three children and two women who were kidnapped from the region by South Sudanese Murle armed. Three children were also abducted during the cross border raid. It came in the backdrop of yet another cross border attack in January this year by the same armed group which left eight people dead and five others injured in Bakankan Kebele located in Akobo woreda of the Nuer zone.

Source: Ethiopian News August 10, 2022 21:39 UTC