Qualla: Yuai https://qualla.com/yuai 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: Yuai https://qualla.com/yuai Yuai: Introduction https://qualla.com/yuai/ Twenty-seven thousand people fled Yuai and the neighboring town of Waat in just four months in 2017. Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors Without Borders - counted them as they scattered across Jonglei State's grasslands looking for somewhere the gunfire hadn't reached. Yuai itself had been peaceful for most of South Sudan's civil war. Then, in February of that year, it wasn't. The town's misfortune was its location: the traditional heartland of the Lou Nuer, the White Army's ground, the kind of place whichever faction wanted to control eastern Jonglei had to take.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/q/s/yuai-wp/s9qs-yuai-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yuai: Capital of Uror https://qualla.com/yuai/ Yuai is the most populous place in Uror County, which makes it Uror's capital in practical if not always formal terms. The town sits at roughly 7.91 degrees north latitude, on flat grassland cut by seasonal watercourses that fill during the May-October wet season and retreat to t...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/q/s/yuai-wp/s9qs-yuai-capital-of-uror.mp3 0:06 2 full Yuai: The Wars That Keep Finding It https://qualla.com/yuai/ Yuai was a garrison of the SPLA-Nasir faction during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and the mainline SPLA attacked it in 1993. In 2006, the forced disarmament of the Lou Nuer brought fighting back; a conference held in Yuai from February 27 to March 7 tried to convince the Lou Nu...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/q/s/yuai-wp/s9qs-yuai-the-wars-that-keep-finding-it.mp3 0:06 3 full Yuai: February 2017 https://qualla.com/yuai/ On 15 February 2017, the SPLA took Yuai without heavy fighting, but the SPLA-IO counter-attacked the following morning in an assault that failed. The SPLA-IO attacked again on 12 March and was repulsed; the opposition claimed 93 killed and a tank destroyed on the government side,...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/q/s/yuai-wp/s9qs-yuai-february-2017.mp3 0:06 4 full Yuai: A Town Made and Unmade by Administrative Decree https://qualla.com/yuai/ Yuai sits inside Jonglei State, one of South Sudan's largest and most conflicted administrative regions. In 2015 the country's ten states were rearranged into twenty-eight, and Yuai became part of Eastern Bieh State, later renamed simply Bieh State. In 2020, following a peace agr...

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