Qualla: Pibor https://qualla.com/pibor 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: Pibor https://qualla.com/pibor Pibor: Introduction https://qualla.com/pibor/ The British called it Fort Bruce when they built it in 1912, on a low rise where several streams meet to form the Pibor River. They built it for administrative reasons that made sense in London - a fort here, a fort there, so the flag could be visible across the sleepy interior of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The Murle pastoralists whose land it occupied made their own sense of it. Today the fort is gone, the river still winds past the town, and Pibor Post has the same problem it has always had: when the rains come, the roads stop working, and the town returns to being reachable only by water or air.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/p/w/pibor-wp/s9pw-pibor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pibor: A Town the Floods Shape https://qualla.com/pibor/ Pibor sits in eastern South Sudan near the Ethiopian border, approximately 342 kilometers by road northeast of Juba. It is the headquarters of Pibor County, inside what has been, variously since 2014, the Greater Pibor Administrative Area - a special zone carved out in the afterm...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/p/w/pibor-wp/s9pw-pibor-a-town-the-floods-shape.mp3 0:06 2 full Pibor: Who Lives Here https://qualla.com/pibor/ The permanent population of Pibor Post is estimated at around 1,000 people, though the number is uncertain because most of the Murle population is pastoral, moving with herds across broad seasonal ranges. The Murle are one of the smaller Nilotic groups of South Sudan, with a dist...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/p/w/pibor-wp/s9pw-pibor-who-lives-here.mp3 0:06 3 full Pibor: The River That Starts Here https://qualla.com/pibor/ The Pibor River begins at the town - formed by the confluence of several smaller streams - and flows north for 320 kilometers, joining the Baro to form the Sobat, which is a tributary of the White Nile. In effect, Pibor is the southern headwater of a whole hydrological chapter of...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/p/w/pibor-wp/s9pw-pibor-the-river-that-starts-here.mp3 0:06 4 full Pibor: Boma and the Larger Landscape https://qualla.com/pibor/ Sixty-five kilometers east of Pibor lies Boma National Park, the largest national park in South Sudan - a sweep of floodplain and escarpment that supports one of the continent's great wildlife migrations, including the white-eared kob and tiang antelope. Surveys as early as 2005 ...

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