The minister said, adding that he had been shot by people loyal to Riek Machar Teny, South Sudan’s former vice president. South Sudan has blamed rebels for killing a regional parliament legislatorin neighbouring Uganda.Alfred Duku, minister for information, culture, youth and sports in South Sudan’s Yei River state said the MP, Jacob Gale, was killed late on Wednesday.Gale was killed in Uganda’s northwestern town of Yumbe, the minister said, adding that he had been shot by people loyal to Riek Machar Teny, South Sudan’s former vice president.Rebel spokesman, Lam Gabriel, denied they had carried out the assassination and instead blamed the government.“Our forces cannot cross to Uganda because we don’t have that mandate … We are not responsible for what had happened,” he said.South Sudan has been convulsed by a civil war for four years triggered by a political disagreement between President Salva Kiir and Machar.
