Ethiopian official says South Sudan gunmen kill 28, kidnap 43

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Gunmen from South Sudan have killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighboring Ethiopia, a government official said on Wednesday, another demonstration of how Sudan's civil war threatens the region. The raids on Sunday and Monday occurred in Gambella's Gog and Jor areas, which border South Sudan's Boma region, said Chol Chany, a regional government spokesman. The assailants haven't crossed over to South Sudan yet." Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in a civil war since President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer, in December 2013.
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