Three aid workers and 11 civilians were killed in early January in attacks by gunmen in South Sudan, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
In the first days of the year, three South Sudanese aid workers who were helping others paid the highest price with their lives,” said Peter Van der Auweraert, OCHA’s head of mission in the African country.
Two of them were victims of an attack by armed men, which left others dead, on January 2 in a village in the oil-rich Abyei administrative area, the UN agency said.
A total of 14 people, including women and children, died in the attack, which was attributed to youths from neighbouring Twic county, Abyei spokesman Ajak Deng told AFP.
A peace agreement was signed in 2018, battered since then by sporadic bouts of violence between government forces and the opposition, alongside inter-ethnic conflicts.
