"THE PRESENCE OF LARGE HERDS OF CATTLE IN MAGWI COUNTY IS ALARMING" Governor Lobong.
"THE PRESENCE OF LARGE HERDS OF CATTLE IN MAGWI COUNTY IS ALARMING" Governor Lobong. On 18 February 2022 (OPARI).. The Governor of Eastern Equatoria Louis Lobong Lojore has sounded an alarm over the presence of large number of cattle in Magwi County. Lobong spent the whole day of Friday trekking in the bushes of Opari and Pageri talking to cattle keepers to refrain from destroying the livelihood of the Madi and Acholi communities. There are tens of thousands of cattle that have migrated from Terekeka and Bor to various locations in Magwi County of Eastern Equatoria State since January 2022. The areas mostly affected by the cattle migration are Agoro, Ayii, Opari, Ashwa, Mugali and Owiny-Ki-Bul. The locals have since complained of destruction of farms by cattle, destruction of beehives by herders, harassment, arbitrary arrests and denial of locals to go to the forest for hunting, charcoal burning, fetching of grass by returnees to construct their houses, besides the roaming o...