Qualla: Mayom County https://qualla.com/mayom-county 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: Mayom County https://qualla.com/mayom-county Mayom County: Introduction https://qualla.com/mayom-county/ On April 11, 2011, three months before South Sudan was to declare independence, a former SPLA general named Peter Gadet Yak signed his name to a document called the Mayom Declaration. He denounced the incoming government in Juba as 'the current corrupt gangs' and called for its replacement by a broad-based transitional government. He named his own faction the South Sudan Liberation Army. The SPLA moved quickly to dismiss the declaration as void. Within weeks his fighters and government troops were burning villages across the county that gave the declaration its name. In May 2011 the Mayom commissioner would report that 7,800 homes had been destroyed in just three of the county's bomas (local subdivisions), and the newly independent state would spend the rest of that year trying to contain the aftershocks of a rebellion nobody had quite expected.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/s/mayom-county-wp/s9ss-mayom-county-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mayom County: A County in the Oil Belt https://qualla.com/mayom-county/ Mayom County occupies the northwest of Unity State, in the Greater Upper Nile region. Its headquarters is Mayom town; other significant settlements include Tam, Mankien, and Wang-kay, with villages like Rier, Thargana, Buoth, Wicok, and Toic scattered through the grassland. The c...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/s/mayom-county-wp/s9ss-mayom-county-the-2011-referendum.mp3 0:06 4 full Mayom County: Commissioners, Burned Homes, and Accusations https://qualla.com/mayom-county/ In March 2011 Commissioner Gatduel was replaced by Charles Machieng Kuol, the son-in-law of the state governor. The Bul Nuer community, not consulted about the appointment, publicly objected. In April, a Misseriya raiding party from the north attacked an SPLA base claiming they w...

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