BREAKING: South Sudan Rebels Besiege Yei Town, Captured Ombachi

[Elisabeth Janaina]

BREAKING: South Sudan Rebels Besiege Yei Town, Captured Ombachi
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Soldiers of SPLA in Opposition during their morning parades at the
front lines(Photo: file)

Soldiers of SPLA in Opposition during their morning parades at the
front lines(Photo: file)

Dec 7, 2016(Nyamilepedia) ——- Reports from South Sudan’s Yei River
State indicate fear that forces of rebels groups under the banner of
SPLA in Opposition have captured Ombachi less than 7 kilometres away
from the capital, Yei.

According to one of the commanding officers of SPLA-IO’s 9th division,
Brig Gen. John Sunday Martin, his forces have captured Ombachi today
at 4pm and are advancing toward the Yei River State capital.

“Today on Wednesday, 7th December 2016 at 4PM, our revolutionary force
captured Ombachi from the government forces, an an operation that
killed dozens of the Government forces.” Martin said.

“Our luminous forces of SPLA IO are advancing toward Yei from all
directions, and we would like to call on all civilian populations
including humanitarian aid workers in Yei to vacate within today.”
The Brig. Gen continued.

General Sunday said his forces have captured one armoured vehicle, 4
RPGs, 6 PKMs and 15 AK47s among other supplies

“We have captured 4 RPGs, 6 PKM and 15 AK47 with rounds of ammunitions
including 1 armed vehicle.” Sunday said.

The officer claims that his forces were provoked by government attacks
on their position in Lasu last week but after defeating the government
forces they pursued them in two directions; one group to Congolese
border and the second group toward Yei town.
DR Congo Army Detained SPLA Soldiers Fleeing Rebels Attacks

According to DR Congo authors, more than 40 South Sudan government
soldiers who were pursued by the rebels into DR Congo are now arrested
by the Congolese army.

Medard Mokobke Mabe, a coordinator for the Red Cross in the small town
of Aba, said that South Sudanese soldiers had been detained after
having crossed the border.

Valentin Ngaito, editor of a community radio station in the Congolese
town of Aba, 10 km (six miles) south of the border, told Reuters that
Congolese troops detained 41 South Sudanese soldiers and one police
officer on Saturday after they fled a rebel assault over the frontier.

Despite that 57,000 South Sudan refugees, according to the UNHCR, have
crossed the border to DR Congo due to fighting in Equatoria region,
Salva Kiir government has sent delegations to DRC within the last two
months to ask the Congolese government to deport members of SPLA-IO
who accompanied the Commander-in-chief, Dr. Riek Machar, to DRC in
August this year.

As fighting intensifies in the war-torn nation, many soldiers who are
giving up have surrendered their guns to UNMISS and other rights group
and sought protection.

It is yet to be confirmed if the government will make more
arrangements to deport these soldiers under Congolese detention back
to Juba.

In response to SPLA-IO accounts, SPLA(IG) spokesman, Brig. Gen. Lul
Ruai Kong, has claimed that their forces are in full control of Lasu,
denying any presence of rebels in Yei River; a volatile state that has
been constantly on news since July this year.