South Sudan: Bishop links missing priest to ethnic, political divides

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura Yambio in South Sudan has fingered the country’s ethnic and political divides as being at the heart of the disappearance of Father Luke Yugue and his driver, Michael Gbeko.

The pair went missing April 27 after leaving their Nagero Parish on a motorbike trip to another parish in Western Equatoria State.

Hiiboro told Crux the context of the kidnapping: Tombura County, located within Western Equatoria State (WES)...