Two girls, age 10 and 14 years, are reported to have disappeared in the Boro Medina area, which is located in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state near the disputed Kafia Kinji territory.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj from Boro Medina refugee camp, Dahia Omer Khamis said the two girls went into the bush to collect grasses for building.
But from 11 May until now they have not been found. Their parents and camp authorities searched for them within the camp and around it. “We have been searching for four days and we still haven’t found those girls,” he said.
“We cannot suspect anybody – neither the neighbors nor the people within the camp – they just moved to the bush to cut the grasses for building and from there they did not came back,” said Dahia Omer.
He requested the listeners of Radio Tamazuj to report any information on the whereabouts of these two missing girls if they come across them.
A similar incident happened in 2011 when a young man called Adam Mohmed Gidu, age 24 years old, also disappeared near Boro Medina refugee camp.
Boro Medina district borders Central African Republic to the west, Kafia Kinji to the north and Raja to the east.
File photo: A man wades through a stream in Boro Medina area, South Sudan (Radio Tamazuj)