Qualla: Northern Bahr el Ghazal https://qualla.com/northern-bahr-el-ghazal 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: Northern Bahr el Ghazal https://qualla.com/northern-bahr-el-ghazal Northern Bahr el Ghazal: Introduction https://qualla.com/northern-bahr-el-ghazal/ A railway line is not usually the protagonist of a place's history, but in Northern Bahr el Ghazal the line that ran south from Kordofan to Wau carried the worst years of the 20th century along with it. Trains brought soldiers and murahileen horsemen, and whole Dinka villages burned in their wake. Today that same grassland, stretching across 30,543 square kilometers of floodplain and tropical savanna, is trying to become something else: a state, in a country still learning to be a country, with Aweil as its capital and the Lol River cutting westward through its center.

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