South Sudan: Juba Sacks 14 Nuer Oil Workers Over Alleged Rebel Links

Sep 10, 2014 | Sudan Tribune
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(JUBA) – A group of South Sudanese men of Nuer origin, who were employed by several oil companies, have been denied salary payments and dismissed from their positions by the South Sudanese government, reportedly over their ethnicity.

Engineer Lony Keah Tut Ngoal, who worked for China’s Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC), says members of the Nuer tribe working in both the public and private sector remained a prime target as a result of the country’s ongoing conflict, which erupted in mid-December last year.