Qualla: Ramciel https://qualla.com/ramciel 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: Ramciel https://qualla.com/ramciel Ramciel: Introduction https://qualla.com/ramciel/ John Garang had a vision, not long before he died in a helicopter crash in July 2005, of a capital city rising in the middle of South Sudan's map - equidistant from Juba and Wau and Malakal, away from the edges, a symbolic center for a country that did not yet exist. The place he named was Ramciel. In February 2011, with independence just five months away, the Autonomous Government of Southern Sudan voted to study the idea. In September 2011, the federal cabinet made it official: Ramciel would be South Sudan's new capital. In 2026, satellite imagery shows almost no building. The grazing cattle of the Aliab Dinka still wander the proposed site, as they have for generations, more or less unaware that the future capital of a nation is supposed to be rising around them.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/j/u/ramciel-wp/s9ju-ramciel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ramciel: Where the Country's Heart Would Beat https://qualla.com/ramciel/ Ramciel lies in Yirol East County, in Lakes State, in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan - about 250 kilometers north of Juba. Under ideal conditions, the drive to Juba would take roughly three hours on a rough road; to Rumbek, also about three hours; to Wau, up to six. The...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/j/u/ramciel-wp/s9ju-ramciel-where-the-countrys-heart-would-beat.mp3 0:06 2 full Ramciel: The Aliab Dinka and the Ancestral Ground https://qualla.com/ramciel/ The inhabitants of Ramciel are mainly Aliab Dinka, one of many Dinka sub-groups that together form the largest ethnic population of South Sudan. The proposed capital site lies in Makur Boma of Abuyung Payam, in Awerial County - a piece of land that is not abstract to the people w...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/j/u/ramciel-wp/s9ju-ramciel-a-decade-of-announcements.mp3 0:06 4 full Ramciel: What the Satellites Still Don't See https://qualla.com/ramciel/ A 2024 Newsweek investigation noted that satellite imagery shows practically no construction at Ramciel - the proposed capital of the world's youngest country remains, in visual terms, a promise rather than a place. Juba, meanwhile, has continued to serve as capital despite its a...

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