The Vice President of South Sudan, Riek Machar, has revealed that diseases, hunger killed over 200 soldiers during their training.
Machar said this at the graduation ceremony of the nation’s new security operatives at the Dr. John Garang Mausoleum in Juba on Tuesday.
The Voice of Nigeria quoted him as saying,
“Over two hundred of your comrades have died in the eighteen training centres, some died because of disease and no medication, some died because of hunger as food was not available.”
Thousands of fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan’s civil war were integrated into the country’s army in a graduation ceremony originally scheduled for 2019.
South Sudan gained independence in 2011 from Sudan making it the world’s youngest nation.
