source: UNSC; Eye Radio (South Sudan)
actor1: Padang Clan Militia (South Sudan)
actor2: Civilians (South Sudan)
location: Malakal
notes: On 13 July 2020, unknown gunmen (suspected of being linked to the Padang Dinka, and provisionally coded as Padang militia) shot and killed a prominent Shilluk public prosecutor (who is the brother of Lam Akol) at a restaurant in Malakal (Upper Nile state). The assassination comes during a time of tension over the governorship of Upper Nile state, and between the Shilluk and Padang over land and administrative control of Malakal town.