{"id":186358,"date":"2013-12-16T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/spla-estimates-more-than-300-hostile-forces-in-juba\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:04:00","slug":"spla-estimates-more-than-300-hostile-forces-in-juba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/spla-estimates-more-than-300-hostile-forces-in-juba","title":{"rendered":"SPLA estimates more than 300 hostile forces in Juba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPLA Spokesman Col. Philip Aguer has disclosed to Radio Tamazuj that the South Sudan army is still facing a hostile force of more than 300 men in two areas around Juba. Although claiming that the government is in full control of the security situation in the capital, he acknowledged that two groups of hostile forces have not yet been defeated.<\/p>\n<p>President Kiir earlier identified the groups as loyalists of the former vice president Riek Machar, who denies involvement. The SPLA spokesman told Radio Tamazuj at around 4:30 p.m. local time that one force was \u201cbehind Khor William at a distance of about 4 miles from Juba.\u201d He was referring to a group of the SPLA Presidential Guard unit, the Tiger force, which included loyalists of both Salva Kiir and Riek Machar.<\/p>\n<p>Another hostile group has withdrawn to the area of a farm on the outskirts of town owned by the former vice president.This group \u201cwere attacking New Site,\u201d the spokesman said, referring to the general headquarters at Bilpam.<\/p>\n<p>Col. 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Philip Aguer has disclosed to Radio Tamazuj that the South Sudan army is still facing a hostile force of more than 300 men in two areas around Juba. Although claiming that the government is in full control of the security situation in the capital, he acknowledged that two groups of hostile forces have not yet been defeated.President Kiir earlier identified the groups as loyalists of the former vice president Riek Machar, who denies involvement. The SPLA spokesman told Radio Tamazuj at around 4:30 p.m. local time that one force was \u201cbehind Khor William at a distance of about 4 miles from Juba.\u201d He was referring to a group of the SPLA Presidential Guard unit, the Tiger force, which included loyalists of both Salva Kiir and Riek Machar.Another hostile group has withdrawn to the area of a farm on the outskirts of town owned by the former vice president.This group \u201cwere attacking New Site,\u201d the spokesman said, referring to the general headquarters at Bilpam.Col. Aguer declined to identify this group with any particular SPLA unit, saying that it was smaller than the one near Khor William and comprised of fighters who had been \u2018unemployed\u2019 and \u2018not in the SPLA.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SPLA estimates more than 300 hostile forces in Juba - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/spla-estimates-more-than-300-hostile-forces-in-juba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPLA estimates more than 300 hostile forces in Juba - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SPLA Spokesman Col. Philip Aguer has disclosed to Radio Tamazuj that the South Sudan army is still facing a hostile force of more than 300 men in two areas around Juba. Although claiming that the government is in full control of the security situation in the capital, he acknowledged that two groups of hostile forces have not yet been defeated.President Kiir earlier identified the groups as loyalists of the former vice president Riek Machar, who denies involvement. The SPLA spokesman told Radio Tamazuj at around 4:30 p.m. local time that one force was \u201cbehind Khor William at a distance of about 4 miles from Juba.\u201d He was referring to a group of the SPLA Presidential Guard unit, the Tiger force, which included loyalists of both Salva Kiir and Riek Machar.Another hostile group has withdrawn to the area of a farm on the outskirts of town owned by the former vice president.This group \u201cwere attacking New Site,\u201d the spokesman said, referring to the general headquarters at Bilpam.Col. 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