Uganda and South Sudan are in talks over a growing number of deadly ambushes on South Sudanese territory targeting transit trucks.
Uganda’s minister of state in charge of international affairs, Okello Oryem, is in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, to discuss stopping the ambushes with his counterparts, according to a statement issued by Uganda’s ministry of foreign affairs.
Local media reported on Tuesday that at least seven Ugandan drivers had been killed by militants in areas between Juba and the border with Uganda.
In April Uganda asked South Sudan to compensate families of drivers who were killed by unknown militia in different road ambushes.
