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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Fighting between armed groups and government forces in the northwest South Sudanese town of Wau last week left an estimated 43 dead, according to a government official on June 28.
Government forces battled fighters loyal to Ali Tamin Fatan, a militia leader trying to control territory further west near the border with Central African Republic (CAR), government spokesman Makuei Lueth told reporters.
“So far up to this morning the report which I got is that there are 39 (civilian) bodies and another four belong to police,” Lueth said. According to Lueth these numbers could rise as the army has not submitted casualty figures.
Fatan is accused of trying to institute an Islamist state in the area near the border with CAR, although according to Lueth, Fatan’s forces included members of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army, a nominally Christian group that fought a violent insurgency in Uganda.
On the evening of June 27 the UN said around 12,000 people had sought refuge in a cordoned-off area around its base in Wau.
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