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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
- Saturday 18 May 2013
May 17, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan president, Salva Kiir has warned armed rebel groups and “ill-disciplined” elements within the regular security forces to halt violence against innocent civilians in the country. South Sudan president (...)
- Friday 17 May 2013
May 16, 2013 (BOR) - Five people were killed and six others wounded on Wednesday in an ambush on a convoy carrying the king of the Anuak tribe from South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state to Pinyudo in Ethiopia. Akwai Agada Akwai Cham at (...)
- Wednesday 15 May 2013
May 14, 2013 (JUBA) - A rebel group fighting in South Sudan’s Jonglei State on Tuesday claimed to have laid a siege on Pibor town, highlighting the level of their activities in the area have reached in recent days. South Sudan rebel (...)
- 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 (...)
- Saturday 9 March 2013
March 8, 2013 (BOR) - Hundreds South Sudanese citizens and political leaders converged on Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday, where speakers called for early marriage and violence against (...)
- 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 (...)
- 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 (...)
- Saturday 5 May 2012
May 4, 2012 (BOR) – Participants of a peace conference in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei State have expressed concern that the current peace talks may not be able to address the underlying causes of violence despite confidence that a (...)
- 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, (...)
- Saturday 20 April 2013
April 19, 2013 (JUBA) – Community leaders from Ayual community of Twic East county in South Sudan’s largest state, Jonglei, have urged the leadership to provide services at the grassroots that will avoid the competition over resources (...)
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