About 75 herds of cattle raided from Awerial County in Lakes State last week were recovered in neighbouring Yirol East County on Tuesday, a local official disclosed.
Four people were wounded when a group of youth from Yirol East attacked a cattle camp located in Awerial County.
Barnaba Mayor, the Secretary General of the defunct Eastern Lakes State, told Radio Tamazuj on Wednesday that the 75 recovered cows were part of the animals stolen during last week’s raid in Awerial.
“We recovered those cows in Malek during my mission on Monday. We are still engaging Malek authorities to recover more cows. So, we now plan to handover the cows to their owners,” he explained.
Many areas in South Sudan have suffered decades of violence, mainly caused by cattle raiding and grazing land.