Dear brothers and sisters, I invite you for a prayer item over a crucial situation in Wangulei, South Sudan.

I write to you with heavy heart of sorrow to bring this sad news that you might have already heard through media that people of Wanglei in Twich East County, Jonglei State, South Sudan have fought among themselves over an issue of land ownership as in who historically owns Wanglei center.  Wanglei is a small village/center (perhaps less than 800 acress of land with no any viable economic activity) hared by the three clans of Awulian, Dachuek and Ayual some 200 miles from north of Juba. These communities have been coexisting peacefully for years until on March 4th when Ayual and Dachuek fought  in a fight that has left 21 people dead and about 53 others seriously wounded. About 30 houses (tukuls) reduced to ashes. In Feb last year, 4 other people were killed in a related case of land dispute over the ownership of Wanglei between the Dachuek and Ayual. The land being fought over is where the portion of it was donated by the same communities to Good Shepherd Leadership Training Center in order to its campus there.
 
This is very unforunate thing to happen at a time that the people of South Sudan are celebrating their hope and achievement of becoming a new nation.  Similar fight over the land ownership have also being recently reported in Unity state where a chief of the local community together with four others were killed in the fight. In February, a  minister in the Government of Southern Sudan together with his body guard were shot dead in the ministry building by the former driver and a brother in law of the minister.
  
Please I invite you wholeheartly for a special prayer for these two communities to come into their sense and that the Lord will give them His peace that surpases the understanding of all men. Pray for amicable solution over this dispute and that both government and the church may effectively succeed in finding peace among these communities.