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The Greater Upper Nile (Arabic: منطقة أعالي النيل, romanized: A'Ali An Nil) is a region of northeastern South Sudan. [1] It is named for the White Nile (it is its lowest portion in South Sudan), a tributary of the Nile River in North and East Africa .
Most Upper Nile State citizens have limited access to news and other media information. In cities like Malakal, only a few officials could read weekly newspaper bulletins. The only TV station for the people of Upper Nile State is South Sudan Television. Although the station works for only few hours, it is widely popular in the state capital.
In late December 2011, several months after South Sudan gained its independence, The Upper Nile Times reported that the Nuer White Army had re-formed and had issued a threat on Christmas Day 2011 to "wipe out the entire Murle tribe on the face of the earth as the only solution to guarantee long-term security of Nuer's cattle".
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Upper Nile may refer to: Upper portion of the river Nile and its surrounding areas. Greater Upper Nile (region), a region of South Sudan;
A couple of years later, the death toll was projected to be over 50,000 Nuer civilians as fighting rapidly engulfed the entire region of the Greater Upper Nile. Between December 2013 - May 2021, The New York Times estimated 400,000 thousands people dead and the UNHCR estimated 2.24 million people displaced across South Sudan. [46]
James Tor Monybuny is a South Sudanese politician who has been the deputy governor of Upper Nile State since January 2021, and was the first governor of Central Upper Nile State from 2017-2019. Monybuny is from Baliet, and is a member of the Ngok Lual Yak section of the Padang Dinka. [1]
Nilotic and Nilote are now mainly used to refer to the various disparate people who speak languages in the same Nilotic language family. Etymologically, the terms Nilotic and Nilote (singular nilot) derive from the Nile Valley; specifically, the Upper Nile and its tributaries, where most Sudanese Nilo-Saharan-speaking people live. [8]