Qualla: Aroyo, South Sudan https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aroyo, South Sudan https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan Aroyo, South Sudan: Introduction https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan/ In August 2016, the Commissioner of Aroyo County had no vehicle. This was not a peculiarity of his office - it was the ordinary condition of a local government that had been brought into being a year earlier by presidential decree, without the budget or equipment to operate. The 2015 decree that divided South Sudan into a new patchwork of states and counties had left many commissioners with titles and no tools. Aroyo, a town on the east bank of the Chel River in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, found itself suddenly elevated to a county seat and entirely uncertain what that meant.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/e/1/aroyo-south-sudan-wp/s9e1-aroyo-south-sudan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aroyo, South Sudan: The Town on the Chel https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan/ Aroyo - also known as Areya - sits in Dinka country in the far northwest of South Sudan. The Chel River runs past the town's eastern edge; Marial Bai lies to the north. A small airport once served the area, just north of the town proper. Roads in this part of South Sudan are ambi...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/e/1/aroyo-south-sudan-wp/s9e1-aroyo-south-sudan-the-siege-of-the-construction-compound.mp3 0:06 3 full Aroyo, South Sudan: A Quarter of Medicine https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan/ In January 2017, Aroyo County received a three-month supply of medicines from the health ministry in Juba. The supply was newsworthy because it was rare. River blindness remained endemic in the county - a disease caused by a parasitic worm transmitted by black flies breeding alon...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/e/1/aroyo-south-sudan-wp/s9e1-aroyo-south-sudan-a-quarter-of-medicine.mp3 0:06 4 full Aroyo, South Sudan: The State That Wasnt Built https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan/ The 2015 decree that made Aroyo a county headquarters was part of President Salva Kiir Mayardit's larger rearrangement of South Sudan's internal borders. Old states were subdivided; new ones appeared. Aweil State, of which Aroyo briefly became a county capital, existed from 2015 ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/e/1/aroyo-south-sudan-wp/s9e1-aroyo-south-sudan-the-state-that-wasnt-built.mp3 0:06 5 full Aroyo, South Sudan: The Bahr el Ghazal https://qualla.com/aroyo-south-sudan/ Aroyo sits near the core of the old Bahr el Ghazal region, a land of swamps and ironstone plateaus in northwestern South Sudan that has been Dinka country for centuries. The name Bahr el Ghazal translates from Arabic as sea of gazelles. Elevation in the area hovers around 440 met...

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