Following conflict between farmers and herders in Magwi, UNMISS steps up patrols

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“Many lives have been lost, while even more of us were displaced,” revealed Stella Ayaa, a women’s leader from Ayii boma [administrative division]. “Our homes were looted, burnt to cinders and our crops, destroyed. All we have are the clothes on our back while cattle herders are still omnipresent in our area,” she continued. “Nobody came to our rescue,” she added poignantly, speaking to a visiting patrol team from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Stella and many others like her hail from Magwi, Eastern Equatoria, where a massive influx of semi-nomadic cattle herders disrupte…

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