Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Akobo river empties into the river Pibor at the border town of Old Akobo. Akobo has a clinic which was built in 1911 and a hospital which was built between 1976 and 1983. Akobo has three primary schools and one intermediate high school. Akobo Heritage and Memorial University - An institution of higher learning; Akobo Airport - A civilian ...
The county is located in Jonglei State, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, bordering the country of Ethiopia. The county headquarter is Akobo , located approximately 450 kilometres (280 mi), northeast of Juba , South Sudan Capital and largest city in the country.
Before the independence of South Sudan from Sudan, the Counties were known as Districts. Upon Independence in 2011, the 10 states of South Sudan were divided into 86 counties. More counties were established during the South Sudanese Civil War, when the country increased to 32 states, and the number of counties exceeded 100. However, with the ...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has fired Finance Minister Dier Tong Ngor, the latest abrupt cabinet change in the East African country, and a spokesperson for Kiir linked it to a recent slump in ...
The capital of the state, Bor, became an administrative centre under the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899 -1956) for the Dinka Bor.It was in Malek, a small settlement, about 19 kilometres (12 mi), south of Bor that the first modern Christian mission in present-day South Sudan was established by Archibald Shaw in December 1905. [4]
Denay Jock Chagor is a South Sudanese politician and the governor of Jonglei State since July 2020.. Chagor is a Lou Nuer Akobo county. In 2015, Chagor became the deputy chairman and chief of general staff for the South Sudan United Movement (SSUM), a rebel group part of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) coalition.
Walgak is a town in the Akobo County of Jonglei State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. It made headlines as the location of the February 2013 massacre of over 100 people in the ongoing Murle-Nuer conflict. [1] [2] The Walgak area is susceptible to severe flooding. [3]
Akobo Johnson Gony Beliu 1 Maiwut Maiwut Bol Ruach Rom 6 Northern Upper Nile Renk Thon Bany 7 See also. Subdivisions of South Sudan; List of Sudan's state governors;