South Sudan calls for resolution on cattle rustling across borders
Armed residents at Mukutani, Baringo County in Kenya’s Rift Valley patrol on June 10, 2014 following attacks by Pokot cattle rustlers. PHOTO | CHEBOITE KIGEN | NATION
South Sudan may have applied and joined the East African Community at the earliest opportunity possible, but the country is not comfortable with having its neighbours in a common market.
In negotiations to sign onto the first draft of the protocols on transhumance and the free movement of persons currently being negotiated by partner states in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), South Sudan has so far made the stiffest demands targeting especially her EAC neighbours.
