Betty Ogwaro

"A hungry nation is an angry nation. A hungry house is an angry house."

"Cattle raiding in Eastern Equatoria, particularly among the cattle-keeping communities, has been practiced for ages. But now it has shifted dimensions; in the past, people would raid a few cattle and just go back to their wells so that they can add to their dowry. They didn’t have weapons, so people would go at night, open the corral, and walk away with some cattle."

"Food is not only necessary for an individual’s survival, but also a nation’s"

"It has become lethal, because when they go raiding, they kill. And then the community they’ve raided retaliates—they come back to raid and kill."

"Don’t come home because you have stolen, you are unclean.” The girls should say, “We don’t want you to marry us with these cattle which you have stolen, because it is not legal, so I don’t become an illegal wife.”"

"The main aim, according to the young boys who go and raid, is that they want to increase the number of cattle they have so that they can marry the most beautiful girl they love, and competition is always very high."

"It was about women, but now it is about you youth as well; because you are also a large part of the community that has been left out, you are told you are still too young, but you need to begin to make decisions now about yourselves, about the community, about the future of the country."

"You need to get involved, so let us now work together with the government and see that we protect the communities who live here."

"With connecting youth with women, peace and security, it is even better."

"In general, life in South Sudan is difficult for everybody at the moment, because the conflict has ended and not ended: the agreement is signed, but not yet implemented."