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Duk is a county in Jonglei, South Sudan. [1] In May 2016, it was divided into three counties which were Duk Padiet, Duk Payuel, and Panyang. [ 2 ] In 2017, the governor of Jonglei State added Duk Pagaak County, totaling four counties in former Duk County.
Jonglei state comprises nine counties: Bor, Akobo, Ayod, Uror, Duk, Nyirol, Pigi, Twic East, and Fangak. Jonglei State is the largest state by area before reorganisation, with an area of approximately 122,581 km 2, [2] as well as the most populous according to the 2008 census conducted in present-day South Sudan's second period of autonomy. The ...
Dau was born in the Dinka tribe in Sudan in 1974. In 1987, his village, Duk Payuel in Duk County, Jonglei, was attacked by government troops during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The violence separated his family, and Dau travelled on foot for three months until reaching his relatives in Ethiopia. [1]
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.
Deng Laka was born to a Dinka refugee family living among the Gaawar Nuer along the Zeraf Valley in what is now part of Jonglei state, South Sudan, in the mid-nineteenth century. His mother and sisters were captured and sold into slavery by Nuaar Mer, a powerful man from the Radh clan of Gaawar, who was a contact point for the Arab merchants ...
In 1909–1910, people started settling along the northern border of the Bor-Duk districts, with the aim of separating the Nuer and Dinka communities, who had formerly intermingled. [3] It is bordered by Twic East and Duk counties to the north, Yirol East County and Awerial County of Lakes State to the west, Pibor to the east, Central and ...
[1] [2] The elections were the first in Sudan for over two decades, held in the aftermath of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Government of Sudan of Omar al-Bashir. [3] The election was carried out in precarious security conditions, with ethnic conflicts prevalent in the state. [2]
A conference was held from February 27 to March 7 in Yuai with the White Army and leading figures of the Government of Southern Sudan in another attempt to get the Lou Nuer to peacefully disarm. [3] Riek Machar, regarded as the founder of the White Army, announced its dissolution, but the youth were determined to keep their arms.