South Sudan prelate warns tribalism could destroy new nation

August 31, 2011

Amid reports of hundreds of deaths caused by violence between the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes, South Sudan’s leading prelate has called upon the citizens of the newly independent nation to shun tribalism.

“If we don’t shun tribalism, corruption, killing one another, then that will be the end of our lives,” Archbishop Poulino Lukudu Loro of Juba said on August 28.

 

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Further information:

• South Sudan bishop calls upon citizen to spurn tribalism (Sudan Tribune)