Boma is a town in

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 ...

. It is located in Pibor County, Pibor Administrative Area, near the border with

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

Overview

Boma was the first town captured by the

Sudan People's Liberation Army The South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF), formerly the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), is the military force of South Sudan. The SPLA was founded as a guerrilla movement against the government of Sudan in 1983 and was a key parti ...

at the beginning of its insurgency in 1983. The SPLA subsequently used the town's name for the lowest-level

administrative division Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

in the territory it controlled, which continues in modern-day South Sudan. More recently, the town of Boma has been at the center of the insurgency of the South Sudan Democratic Army led by David Yau Yau. Boma Road

Transport

A road connects Boma to Raad along the border of

. Another road leads southwest out of Boma, through the park via Kassangor to the town of Kapoeta . The town is also served by Boma Airstrip.

Population

Points of interest

Boma National Park, the largest national park in

, lies to the west of Boma.

References

{{reflist Pibor Administrative Area