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Kolnyang is a Payam in Bor County, in
Jonglei Jonglei State is a state of South Sudan with Bor as its centre of government and the biggest city. Jonglei state comprises nine counties: Bor, Akobo, Ayod, Uror, Duk, Nyirol, Pigi, Twic East, and Fangak. Jonglei State is the largest s ...
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. It is situated on the east side of the Bahr al Jabal River, to the south of
Bor, South Sudan Bor is a historic city in the Bor region of Jonglei State, located in the central region of South Sudan. It has also served as the headquarters of Jonglei state. The city is situated on the east side of the White Nile ( Bahr al Jabal River) at th ...
. Kolnyang’s Malual-Chaat was where the liberation revolution that led to South Sudan independence started. Both 105 Battalion commander Alier NhialMangardit and the first fallen hero of revolt Maker Jool were from Kolnyang. Kolnyang Payam is Bor county’s southernmost payam, bordering Central Equatoria State to southwest, Pibor Administrative Area to the east, Lake State to the west and Eastern Equatoria State to the southeast.


History


Malek mission site

The area encompassed by Kolnyang Payam was, in the early nineteenth century, the site of one of the Malek Mission, the first permanent Church Mission Society (CMS) station in southern Sudan.There were, of course, earlier permanent missions, such as the American mission station at
Doleib Hill Doleib Hill was a mission station established by the American Inland Mission in South Sudan, southern Sudan, located approximately south of the city of Malakal, on the northern bank of the Sobat River, then in the former Upper Nile, Sudan, Upper N ...
. Malek was the first
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mission in southern Sudan.
Angus Cameron, the Governor of Mongalla, had discouraged the missionaries from settling Mongalla and suggested a site downriver, 18 kilometers south of
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. Llewellyn Gwynne oversaw the group that established the Malek Mission in early 1906. It consisted of Rev. Archibald Shaw, Rev. Arthur Thom, Rev. F.B. Hadow, Dr. Lloyd, Mr. Comely, and Mr. Wilmott. The mission closed (temporarily) fewer than two years later, in May 1908, when only
Archibald Shaw Archdeacon Archibald Shaw (8 June 1879 – 1956) was a pioneer missionary amongst the Dinka people with the Gordon Memorial Sudan Mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in southern Sudan in the first half of the 20th century. An Englishm ...
remained there; the others had all left, owing to a combination of ill-health and frustration. A
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school was subsequently established at the mission, providing one of the few opportunities for access to education in the region.


Panpandiar

The Division 8 Headquarters of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is located at Panpandiar, which lies along the Bahr al Jabal River, sixty kilometers south of Bor, between Malek and Pariak boma. In December 2013, Major-General Peter Gadet, the Commander of SPLA Division 8 Headquarters in Panpandiar, defected from the SPLA along with many of the soldiers under his command and attacked Bor Town.


panwel/Anuet

More than 30 people were killed during a series of disputes over the ownership of dry-season grazing land and the naming a village in the vicinity of Cuei-keer in 2017-2018. Conflict arose over whether a village then known as Panweel would retain its name or be renamed Anuet.


Demographics

In 2008, Kolnyang was composed of four bomas: Cuei-keer, Gak,
Kolnyang Kolnyang is a Payam (administrative division), Payam in Bor County, in Jonglei States of South Sudan, State, South Sudan. It is situated on the east side of the White Nile, Bahr al Jabal River, to the south of Bor, South Sudan. Kolnyang’s Mal ...
, and Pariak. According to the ''Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan'', conducted in April 2008, Kolnyang had a combined population of 40,058 people, composed of 21,188 male and 18,870 female residents.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 . Also, see
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.
Kolnyang is home to eleven major communities. These are Adol, Abang, Gol, Gwalla, Jiir, Koro, Malual, Nyara, Biong, Manyayiel, Nyicak, Pariak and Awan.


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