Kongor Explained

Official Name:Kongor
Other Name:Kongor
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Southern Sudan
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in South Sudan
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Greater Upper Nile
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Jonglei State
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:Twic East County
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:CAT
Utc Offset:+2
Coordinates:7.1553°N 31.3547°W
Elevation M:675
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Aw

Kongor is a community in the Kongor Payam of the Twic East County of Jonglei State, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan.

Twic east is in Dinka territory.[1] The village is to the east of the White Nile and about 80miles north of Bor.The area is subject to flood and drought depending on the season.The people are pastoralists, with an economy based on cattle which demands seasonal migration in search of good pasture.[2]

Twic east was to become a diocese of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Sudan, to be split out from Bor Diocese. There were delays, and in April 2009 the clergy unilaterally declared that Kongor was a diocese in a letter to the Rt. Reverend Nathaniel Garang Anyieth, Bishop of Bor Diocese.[3] The root of the problem was insistence on the name "Kongor" for the diocese, while the other seven payams in Twic East county preferred the name "Twic East".[4] It is now having three clan that include Padal, Apetloc and Bioodit.The early activist leader Joseph Oduho, one of the founders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), was killed during a fight that broke out between SPLM factions at a meeting in Kongor on 27 March 1993.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Civilian devastation: abuses by all parties in the war in southern Sudan . Jemera Rone, John Prendergast, Karen Sorensen . Human Rights Watch . 1994 . 978-1-56432-129-9.
  2. Personal View . British Medical Journal . 289 . 22 September 1984 . KEITH REDHEAD . 2011-08-17.
  3. Web site: Disagreements in Bor diocese after the declaration of Kongor Diocese . The New Sudan Vision . Sirocco Mayom Biar Atem . 28 April 2009 . 2011-08-17.
  4. Web site: Archiepiscopal visit by His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Deng Bul to the dioceses of Jonglei State . 8–17 April 2009 . The Episcopal Church of Sudan . 2011-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110630201951/http://sudan.anglican.org/files/090430Jongleireport.pdf . 30 June 2011 . dead .
  5. Web site: Obituary: Joseph Oduho . Daily Independent UK . DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON . 1 April 1993.