Qualla: Mayom, South Sudan https://qualla.com/mayom-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: Mayom, South Sudan https://qualla.com/mayom-south-sudan Mayom, South Sudan: Introduction https://qualla.com/mayom-south-sudan/ Count the times Mayom has changed hands, and the arithmetic gets tiring. In September 1988 Riek Machar's SPLA forces captured it. Early in 1989 Paulino Matiep, working with a young Sudanese officer named Omar al-Bashir who was about to seize power in Khartoum, took it back. In September 1999 Peter Gadet Yak shelled the town, causing mass displacement. In December 2013 the Nuer White Army seized Mayom from a government that had just lost Juba to itself. In July 2022 rebels killed the county commissioner Chuol Gatluak Manime and his bodyguards inside his own office before withdrawing. In June 2025 the South Sudanese army recaptured the town yet again. Before any of these armies arrived, Mayom was a cattle trading center. When the armies eventually all go somewhere else, the cattle trading will resume, because the families who live here have been moving cattle across this country for longer than any of the armies have existed.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/s/mayom-south-sudan-wp/s9ss-mayom-south-sudan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mayom, South Sudan: A Market on the Grasslands https://qualla.com/mayom-south-sudan/ Mayom sits in Mayom County, Unity State, west of Bentiu. In peacetime, the surrounding area is sparsely populated by nomadic Bul Nuer herders (about one person per square mile) and the town served as a major cattle trading center for the western reaches of what was then called Up...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/s/mayom-south-sudan-wp/s9ss-mayom-south-sudan-mayom-after-independence.mp3 0:06 4 full Mayom, South Sudan: The Ongoing Fight https://qualla.com/mayom-south-sudan/ On July 22, 2022, forces of the SSPM/A (South Sudan People's Movement/Army) attacked Mayom, killed County Commissioner Chuol Gatluak Manime and his bodyguards, burned the commissioner's office, and then withdrew to nearby villages. On June 30, 2025, South Sudanese government forc...

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