Qualla: Second Battle of Heglig https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig 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: Second Battle of Heglig https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig Second Battle of Heglig: Introduction https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig/ It was only ten days in April 2012, but the Second Battle of Heglig exposed everything fragile about South Sudan's brand-new independence. Nine months after raising its flag, the youngest country in the world sent its army north across a disputed border to seize an oilfield, won it, held it, lost it, and left behind dead soldiers whose bodies were so numerous that an AFP correspondent in Heglig could only call them "uncountable." They had names. They had families in Juba and Bentiu and the cattle camps of Greater Upper Nile. They had uniforms with the new South Sudanese flag sewn on the shoulder.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/u/b/second-battle-of-heglig-wp/s9ub-second-battle-of-heglig-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Second Battle of Heglig: Border, Oil, and the Argument That Would Not End https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig/ Heglig - called Panthou in Dinka - lies in the contested area between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement had deferred the question of exactly where the border ran through this petroleum-rich zone, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/u/b/second-battle-of-heglig-wp/s9ub-second-battle-of-heglig-border-oil-and-the-argument-that-would-not-end.mp3 0:06 2 full Second Battle of Heglig: A Field Changes Hands https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig/ By 13 April, South Sudanese forces had reinforced their positions in Heglig while Sudan mobilized for a counteroffensive. Both sides issued dueling statements - the SPLA saying they would defend what they held, the Sudanese government spokesman saying the situation would be "deal...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/u/b/second-battle-of-heglig-wp/s9ub-second-battle-of-heglig-a-field-changes-hands.mp3 0:06 3 full Second Battle of Heglig: The Dead Beneath the Trees https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig/ The Sudanese army claimed to have killed over 1,000 South Sudanese soldiers at Heglig. The actual number is impossible to verify with any confidence. What is not disputed is what an AFP correspondent who reached Heglig after Sudan's recapture saw: the bodies of South Sudanese sol...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/u/b/second-battle-of-heglig-wp/s9ub-second-battle-of-heglig-the-dead-beneath-the-trees.mp3 0:06 4 full Second Battle of Heglig: What the Battle Meant https://qualla.com/second-battle-of-heglig/ The Second Battle of Heglig was formally part of the wider Heglig Crisis, a short war that threatened to become a much larger one. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2046, passed on 2 May 2012, demanded that both countries cease hostilities and resume negotiations. Sudan ...

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