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Jonglei State Jonglei State
- Map showing location of Jonglei state in South Sudan.
Geography: Jonglei is the largest state in South Sudan. Jonglei State borders Ethiopia to the east and five states within South Sudan: Upper Nile to the north, Unity and Lakes to the west, and Central Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria to the south.
Area: 122,479 km²
Population: 1,443,500 (2010)
Capital: Bor
Other Important Towns: Padak, Waat, Akobo, Pibor, Pochalla, Ayod, Fangak, Boma
Jonglei State Website: jonglei-sd.org/
- Jonglei State Flag
Jonglei State Government
Jonglei State Executive
Jonglei State Legislative Assembly
Jonglei State Cabinet
Counties and Commissioners:
- Akobo County, Commissioner Goi Jooyul
- Ayod County, Commissioner James Mawich Makuach
- Bor County, Commissioner Agot Alier Leek
- Duk County, Commissioner Elijah Mocnom Wuor
- Fangak County, Commissioner James Maluit Ruach
- Nyirol County, Commissioner Isaac Kuach Duoth
- Pibor County, Commissioner Joshua Konyi Irer
- Pigi County,Commissioner Abel Michael Miakol Deng
- Pochalla County, Commissioner Joseph Okello
- Twic East, Commissioner Dau Akoi Jurkuch
- Uror County, Commissioner Simon H. Duoth
Jonglei State Links
- Friday 24 May 2013
May 23, 2013 (BOR) - South Sudan’s armed forces - the SPLA - say that after retaking Boma town from rebels in recent days they are advancing in search of the David Yauyau leader of the rebellion in Jonglei’s Pibor county. Jonglei (...)
- Tuesday 21 May 2013
May 19, 2013 (BOR) – The South Sudanese army (SPLA) says it has retaken control of an area previously held by rebels in the remote Boma town in Jonglei state. An SPLA tank in Bor on 18 May 2013 (ST)
Army spokesperson Phillip Aguer told (...)
- Thursday 23 May 2013
May 22, 2013 (BOR) - Earlier this month the South Sudan Red Cross Society in awarded five volunteers and Radio Miraya journalist Manyang Mayom Meen certificates acknowledging their work in the crisis hit Jonglei state, where the (...)
- Friday 1 February 2013
January 31, 2013 (BOR) - Three people are said to have been killed and three others wounded in an attack by unknown gunmen on Nyuak payam [district] on Wednesday morning, according to the Commissioner of Twic East County, Dau Akoi (...)
- Tuesday 30 October 2012
October 29, 2012 (BOR) - One person was wounded on Monday 29 October in an attack on Baping village of Twic East County according to County Commissioner, Dau Akoi Jurkuch. The suspects, Jurkuch said, are either members of rebel group (...)
- Wednesday 11 July 2012
July 9, 2012 (PANYAGOOR) - Jonglei State’s Twic East County celebrated the first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on Monday calling for peace and an end to food security in the area. A group of women dancing in the field at (...)
- Thursday 25 August 2011
By Philip Thon Aleu
August 24, 2011 (KAMPALA) – Twic East county in Jonglei state has appealed for funds to rebuild damaged dykes in order to avoid a "disastrous" loss of livestock and crops. A man makes dyke around a retail shop in (...)
- Saturday 23 February 2013
February 22, 2013 (BOR) - An outbreak of a livestock disease in Jonglei’s Twic East county is killing around 30 cows a day in one cattle camp, according to the area’s commissioner, Dau Akoi Jurkuch.
The fatal disease appeared in (...)
- Monday 1 April 2013
March 31, 2013 (BOR) - Over 12,000 people have been displaced by floods that resulted from heavy rains in various parts of South Sudan’s Jonglei state, an official told Sudan Tribune. Twic East county commissioner Dau Akoi, March 29, (...)
- Monday 28 May 2012
May 27, 2012 (BOR) – South Sudan’s army (SPLA) disarmament operation in Jonglei State captured a suspected armed raider in Twic East County on Sunday, according to the county commissioner, Dau Akoi Jurkcuh. Raider, Thamatho Ketchou, (...)
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