By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Radio Tamazuj
Residents of Bagari, in Wau County, South Sudan, fled after South Sudanese soldiers were deployed and gunfire was reported in the area. Homes and several public facilities were subsequently reportedly looted or vandalised, according to the paramount chief of Wau County cited by Radio Tamazuj.
Five civilians were killed and four injured in a raid targeting herders and cattle in Otallo, Pochalla County, South Sudan. The stolen cattle were recovered and two injured people were transferred to Ethiopia after initial treatment, according to the county police inspector cited by Radio Tamazuj.
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Authorities in Terekeka County, in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State, have banned civilians from possessing or carrying firearms. Commissioner Abraham Kenyi Peter said violators risk six months in prison and a fine of 500,000 South Sudanese pounds, according to Radio Tamazuj.
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South Sudanese lawyer Godfrey Victor accuses soldiers in Western Equatoria of arresting civilians, investigating cases and demanding money, encroaching on the duties of police and courts. He cites two parents detained for more than three weeks in Anzara, according to Eye Radio.
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Gunfire disrupted the SPLM primaries in Tambura, prompting 71 of the 350 expected delegates to flee without voting. The poll was disrupted on Wednesday by gunfire attributed by a local official to SPLA-IO forces, according to Radio Tamazuj.
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Amnesty accuses UN and South Sudan of inaction before massacre of 200Amnesty International accuses the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and authorities of failing to act on warnings before the attack that killed more than 200 people on 1 March in Abiemnom, near the Sudanese border. According to the organisation, peacekeepers were only reinforced after the assault, Al Jazeera reports.
Court of Appeal validates expulsion of four ChagossiansThe Court of Appeal of the British Indian Ocean Territory validated on 12 November 2026 the expulsion orders targeting Misley Mandarin and three other Chagossians living on Coin Island. The ruling backs the territory’s commissioner in the case, according to Defi Media.The week in Africa
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