Qualla: Battle of Bor https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor 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: Battle of Bor https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor Battle of Bor: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor/ At 02:30 on December 18, 2013, around 2,000 soldiers moved on two military camps outside Bor. Tanks, rockets, mortars, artillery - the weapons of a conventional army turned against the state that had issued them. By 05:00 Panpandiar and Malual-Chaat had fallen. The fighting pushed into the town itself, and the civilians of Bor began to run. South Sudan was not yet three years old. Its capital was thirty kilometers to the south, Juba already burning from clashes that had begun three days earlier. The Battle of Bor was not the start of the South Sudanese Civil War. It was the moment the war became unmistakable.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/n/7/battle-of-bor-wp/s9n7-battle-of-bor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Bor: How It Began https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor/ On December 15, 2013, primarily Nuer units had defected from the SPLA, the army of South Sudan, amid a political rupture between President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, and his former vice president Riek Machar, a Nuer. In Juba, Dinka soldiers killed Nuer civilians in what some Nuer calle...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/n/7/battle-of-bor-wp/s9n7-battle-of-bor-four-times-captured.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Bor: The Town Between https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor/ Bor sits on the east bank of the White Nile at the southern edge of the Sudd, South Sudan's vast central wetland. It was a regional ivory-trading hub in the late nineteenth century, the site of one of the first modern Christian missions in the country. For the Dinka of the Bor re...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/n/7/battle-of-bor-wp/s9n7-battle-of-bor-the-town-between.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Bor: What Was Left https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor/ After a month of combat, Bor was mostly destroyed. Looting had finished what shelling began. When SPLA soldiers retook the town, some tried to force their way into the United Nations camp where thousands of civilians had taken refuge. A measles outbreak swept through the camp abo...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/n/7/battle-of-bor-wp/s9n7-battle-of-bor-what-was-left.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Bor: Reading the Scars https://qualla.com/battle-of-bor/ South Sudan's civil war would grind on through ceasefires that broke, peace deals that failed, and famines declared and denied. Bor survived and rebuilt, as it had after 1991, as it had after the Second Sudanese Civil War, as towns along the Nile have rebuilt for generations. But...

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