Makol Cuei, South Sudan Explained
| Makol Cuei |
| Native Name Lang: | dik |
| Pushpin Map: | South Sudan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Sudan |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jonglei State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bor West County (since 2016) [1] |
| Subdivision Type3: | Payam |
| Subdivision Name3: | Baidit |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
Makol Cuei is a boma in Baidit payam, Bor West County, Jonglei State, South Sudan, about 30 kilometers north of Bor. The village is located at the southern extent of the sudd, South Sudan's vast central wetlands.
Demographics
According to the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan, conducted in April 2008, Makol Cuei boma had a population of 10,065 people, composed of 5,615 male and 4,450 female residents.[2] [3]
Culture and community
In March, 2012, a large church, school and health clinic were opened in Makol Cuei, with support from a businessman who had grown up there.[4] The church is the seat of Jonglei State's Athoc diocese.[5]
Notes and References
- News: Mading. Juuk Othana . May 3, 2016 . Governor Establishes Additional Counties In Jonglei . Gurtong . Bor, South Sudan . June 12, 2017.
- National Bureau of Statistics . 2013 . Population Distribution by Sex by Boma, Vol. III . The Republic of South Sudan, The National Bureau of Statistics . 34 . June 11, 2017 . Table 138: Jonglei State, Bor South County, Baidit Payam . https://web.archive.org/web/20171114000909/http://www.ssnbss.org/home/document/census/population-distribution-by-sex-by-BOMA . November 14, 2017 . dead .
- In 2008, at the time of the census, Makol Cuei was located in Bor South County. The data collected during the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan were to be the primary source of information for decisions about the number and demarcation of electoral constituencies and administrative boundaries in what was then southern Sudan. South Sudanese officials rejected census results for southern Sudan. See Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre . 2010 . 5th Population and Housing Census in Sudan – An Incomplete Exercise . Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, Geneva (Switzerland) . June 11, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170918135100/http://www.sudanconsortium.org/member_publications/2010/February/DRDC.Report%20on%20the%205th%20Population%20Census%20in%20Sudan.February2010.pdf . September 18, 2017 . dead . . Also, see Demographics of South Sudan.
- News: March 18, 2012. New church, school and clinic opened in troubled Jonglei . Sudan Tribune . Bor, South Sudan . June 11, 2017 .
- News: July 30, 2014 . South Sudan: New Jonglei Bishop to Prioritise Development in Diocese . All Africa . June 11, 2017.
