March 19, 2020 (Al-DAEIN) A government committee has announced the abduction of 40,000 children and women from an area of tribal overlapping between the borders of Sudan and South Sudan.
However, official and native adminstration efforts succeeded in returning 5,000 abductees to their families, while the fate of 35,000 others still unknown.
The phenomenon of kidnapping children and women has been a matter of concern for the population of the border states between Sudan and South Sudan, especially the Dinka tribes in Bahr al-Ghazal and Rizeigat- Missiriya in Darfur and Kordofan.
Historically, children and women from the Dinka tribe in southern Sudan wer the most vulnerable to kidnapping from the Sudanese tribes in Kordofan and Darfur, where they were used for grazing, farming and household chores.
Speaking to Darfur24 ,head of the Economic Committee of the Southern Sudan Parliament, and head of the Committee on eliminating the Abduction of Children and Women, James Akwer, said the first statistics of the abducted people were between 1986 -1997, showed the abduction of 14,000 children and women.
Akwer explained that the second statistics took place in the year 2000, and the number of kidnapped women reached 10 thousand, while the number of abducted children under the age of six was 20 thousand.
The Committee for the Elimination of Child and Women Abduction, is a government committee formed in 1999 after the Sudanese government recognized the existence of cases of kidnapping of children and women, and is affiliated with the Presidency of the Republic of Sudan.
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