Qualla: Jikmir, South Sudan https://qualla.com/jikmir-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: Jikmir, South Sudan https://qualla.com/jikmir-south-sudan Jikmir, South Sudan: Introduction https://qualla.com/jikmir-south-sudan/ In 2021 and again in 2022, Jikmir Football Club - known to its supporters as Jikmir Joklech - won the Nasir County cup and represented the county in the Upper Nile State tournament. This is not typically how the Wikipedia article about a South Sudanese Payam in Nasir County begins, but it should be. Jikmir is a town of between 10,000 and 20,000 Nuer people, fifteen miles west of the Ethiopian border, where cattle still outnumber cars and where the weekly highlight for many families has more recently been a football match than a political development. That the football club wins, and that the town celebrates those wins, matters. It is a fragment of ordinary life in a place whose history has rarely allowed it.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/x/8/jikmir-south-sudan-wp/s9x8-jikmir-south-sudan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jikmir, South Sudan: A Payam on the Sobat https://qualla.com/jikmir-south-sudan/ Jikmir is a Payam - an administrative subdivision - within Nasir County of Upper Nile State, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. The Payam extends from the town of Kierwan in the west to the Ethiopian town of Burebiey across the Sobat River. Its people are predominan...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/x/8/jikmir-south-sudan-wp/s9x8-jikmir-south-sudan-the-second-war-and-displacement.mp3 0:06 4 full Jikmir, South Sudan: Sons of Jikmir https://qualla.com/jikmir-south-sudan/ Jikmir has contributed a long list of prominent Nuer leaders to both South Sudanese and Ethiopian politics. Puot Kang Chuol served as National Minister of Petroleum for South Sudan. General Koang Chuol Ranley led SSPDF Doctrine and Training. Pal Ruach Duop became Deputy Speaker o...

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