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Aggrey Jaden Road
Aggrey Jaden Road also known as "Juba-Yei-Morobo-Kaya Road", is a highway which connects South Sudan to the Uganda border. The road stretches from Juba which serves as the capital and the largest city in the country connection via Lainya County to Yei, Morobo and Kaya which is the border point. The road was renamed after Aggrey Jaden who was a revolutionary freedom fighter for the struggle of South Sudan independence. Location The road starts at Juba, the capital and largest city in South Sudan. It travels in a general Southerly direction to the town of Lainya a distance of approximately 75 Miles. From there, the road travels in a general Southerly direction, though the towns of Yei and Morobo to end at Kaya Kaya may refer to: People *Kaya (given name) * Kaya (surname) Places *Kaya, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso, capital of the department * Kaya Airport, serving the town * Kaya Department, a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in cen ... town at the border ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juba
Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria, Central Equatoria State. It is the most recently declared national capital and had a population of 525,953 in 2017. It has an area of , with the metropolitan area covering . Juba was established in 1920–21 by the Church Mission Society, Church Missionary Society (CMS) in a small Bari people, Bari village, also called Juba. The city was made as the capital of Mongalla Province in the late 1920s. The growth of the town accelerated following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, which made Juba the capital of the Autonomous Government of Southern Sudan. Juba became the capital of South Sudan in 2011 after its independence, but influential parties wanted Ramciel to be the capital. The government announced the move of the capital to Ramciel, but it is yet to occur. History Under the Khedivate of Egypt, Juba served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaya, South Sudan
Kaya is a city in Central Equatoria, South Sudan. Location The city is located in Kimba Payam, Morobo County, Central Equatoria State, in extreme southwestern South Sudan. It is located near the international border with the Republic of Uganda. Kaya is located approximately , by road, southeast of Yei, South Sudan, Yei the nearest large city. This location lies approximately , by road, south of Juba, South Sudan, Juba, the capital city, capital of South Sudan and largest city in the country. Kaya sits directly across the border from Oraba, in Uganda. History Kaya was a battle scene during the Second Sudanese Civil War and was conquered by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army during Operation Thunderbolt (1997), Operation Thunderbolt on 10 March 1997. Foreign help On October 6, 2017, Uganda pledged to supply power to two South Sudanese border towns as part of the Eastern Africa Power Pool agreement. The agreement calls on all member states to connect electricity to each other. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lainya County
Lainya is a county in Central Equatoria State, South Sudan.Full list of Kiir's proposed new 28 states in S Sudan Radio Tamazuj Hon Robert John Lasu is the current commissioner of Lainya County after seven commissioner's, Administration and Logistics the importations Administration areas in lainya county are basically in payams and boma. payams. # lainya payam. # Kenyi payam. # Kupera payam. # Mukaya payam. # Wuji payam. Roads: Lainya is situated on the main road that connects Juba to the northeast and Yei to the sou ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yei, South Sudan
Yei River County is an administrative area in Central Equatoria with a large population of people who settled in that particular county. Aggrey Cyrus Kanyikwa is the current commissioner for Yei River County. He was appointed by President Salva Kiir Mayardit as recommended by former Central Equatoria, Central Equatoria State Governor, Emmanuel Adil Anthony. Yei River State, Yei has had many communities including the Pojulu, kakwa, Mundu etc, Welcoming businessmen and investors as it grows. Demographics Yei River County is divided into smaller sub-regions (payams). As of January 1, January 2023, there are five payams: the Yei Town payam, the Otogo payam, the Mugwo payam, the Tore payam, and the Lasu payam.The county was divided into four counties in April 2016, however, in 2020 the divided counties were all reverted back and merged into Greater Yei River County as follows below: # Lainya County, Lainya # Morobo County, Morobo # Kajo Keji County, Kajo-keji Yei River Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morobo County
Morobo is one of the six Counties of South Sudan, counties in Central Equatoria state, South Sudan. Morobo County borders Uganda and Congo. The county is mainly occupied by Kakwa language (Africa), Kakwa speaking people, Keliko people, Keliko and Lugbara people, Lugbara. The people in Morobo are local farmers Subsistence agriculture, working for food. Morobo is part of the green belt and also acts as a breadbasket for Yei River County, Yei and Juba. There has been sporadic violence in Morobo County since the establishment of South Sudan at the end of the Second Sudanese Civil War. The United Nations, UN is working with locals to address these issues. Joseph Mawa is the current commissioner of Morobo County. Demography Economy and livelihood Morobo County is located in the state of Central Equatoria. It is bounded to the north-west by Yei County, to the north-east by Lainya County, to the south-east by Uganda, and to the south-west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Sudan
South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the west by the Central African Republic. South Sudan's diverse landscape includes vast plains and plateaus, dry and tropical savannahs, inland floodplains, and forested mountains. The Nile, Nile River system is the defining physical feature of the country, running south to north across its center, which is dominated by a large swamp known as the Sudd. South Sudan has a population of just over 12.7 million in 2024. Juba is the Capital city, capital and largest city. Sudan was occupied by History of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty, Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty and governed as an Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian condominium until Sudanese independence in 1956. Following the First Sudanese Civil War, the Southern Sudan Autonomous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. , it has a population of 49.3 million, of whom 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda, Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south, including Kampala, and whose language Luganda is widely spoken; the official language is English. The region was populated by various ethnic groups, before Bantu and Nilotic groups arrived around 3,000 years ago. These groups established influential kingdoms such as the Empire of Kitara. The arrival of Arab trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Jaden
Aggrey Jaden Ladu (1924, 1927, or 1928 — 1985 or 1987) was a South Sudanese politician. Biography Aggrey Jaden Ladu is from the Pojulu ethnic group, known for promoting the independence of South Sudan from Sudan. He was born in Loka village in the mid to late 1920s and Education Aggrey Jaden Ladu attended Loka Church Missionary Society CMS Elementary school in the period 1936–1944, before proceeding to Nabumali secondary school in Uganda, where he studied from 1945 to 1949.He joined University of Khartoum in 1950 and graduated in the school of Arts in 1954 and joined Sudan administration and was trained as a sub – mamur administrator in 1955. Upon the independence of Sudan in 1956, he was accused of refusing to lower the British flag and replacing it with the new Sudan independence flag. He was transferred to Malakal in 1957 but got dismissed from the Sudan civil service in 1958 after the coup d'état of General Ibrahim Abboud. He left the country in search of a job and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
