The attack this time was against a market in the city, with a toll of two seriously wounded, a mother and her son, and material damage from the fire left by the bombing.

The pact between the Government and the opposition in South Sudan is threatened by the quarrels between members of the Nuer tribe, previously allied to the political opposition, but now dissociated from both parties.

The Nuer cattle tribe is one of the most important in the country and creator of the so-called White Army, an old tribal militia that now counts about 100,000 armed men.

At the beginning, during the creation of the pact, they were allied to the opposition led by Vice President Riek Marchar but then they distanced themselves from that political faction because they considered that it had not fulfilled its promises for the Nuer, inhabitants of the northern state of Upper Nile.

Recent changes of opposition figures in the governance of Upper Nile, stipulated in the 2018 Peace accords and decided by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, created an outbreak of violence in the city of Nasir, from which a wave of arrests was unleashed.

In South Sudan, after several years of civil war, the warring political leaders signed a peace agreement in 2018 and in August 2022 signed to extend the transition period that was due to expire in February 2025 with elections scheduled for December this year, after several delays.

This northeast African country has only 13 years of independence, after separating from its northern neighbor, Sudan, on July 9, 2011.

The self-determination achieved after a historic referendum made it a sovereign state, but also precipitated its political division, which exhibited a deep ethnic rivalry that may resurface at the ballot box in the future.

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