Mayom is a community in the Mayom County of Unity State , in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan . It is located west of Bentiu . It is the headquarters of Mayom County.
9-561: Mayom may refer to: Mayom, South Sudan , a town in Unity State, South Sudan Mayom County , an administrative region in Unity State, South Sudan Máyom, the Thai language name for Phyllanthus acidus Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mayom . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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27-812: The area around Mayom was sparsely populated by nomadic herders, with about one person per square mile. Mayom lies in the Block 4 oil concession to the south of the Kaikang oilfield . During the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) Paulino Matiep Nhial became an Anyanya II leader in the Western Upper Nile (now Unity) state, supported by the Sudan Government against the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Based in
36-1101: The commissioner’s office. Later, they withdrew from the town to the nearby villages. Sources South Sudan People%27s Movement Look for South Sudan People's Movement on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for South Sudan People's Movement in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
45-603: The east of the state. A report from 2000 described Mayom as "a decimated village within the Talisman oil concession" and said that the government of Sudan was no longer allowing humanitarian aid flights to land. On 11 April 2011 Major General Peter Gadet Yak, formerly of the SPLA and now of the "South Sudan Liberation Army", published the "Mayom Declaration". He denounced government by the "current corrupt gangs in Juba" and called for
54-581: The garrison town of Mayom, Paulino held a strategic position, preventing SPLA from Bahr el Ghazal to the west from attacking the oilfields. In September 1988 Riek Machar 's SPLA forces captured Mayom. In cooperation with army officer Omar al Bashir (soon to lead a coup and become President of Sudan) Paulino recaptured Mayom from the SPLA early in 1989. A report on refugees fleeing northward from Mayom and other communities in April 1993 described how they were robbed on their few belongings by Arab militias. One man
63-476: The government of Southern Sudan to be replaced by a national broad-base transitional government. On 29 December 2013, Mayom was seized by Nuer White Army militiamen , and the South Sudanese government, led by president Salva Kiir , is currently trying to take back the town. SSPM/A attacked Mayom on 22 July 2022. They killed the county commissioner, Chuol Gatluak Manime, and his bodyguards and burned
72-540: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayom&oldid=966184350 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mayom, South Sudan Mayom was a major cattle trading center in Western Upper Nile (now Unity State), in Bul Nuer territory. In peacetime
81-672: Was killed from trying to keep his remaining money, about US$ 200. Mayom was the base for the South Sudan Unity Army (SSUA) that Matiep formed early in 1998, incorporating his former Anyanya II and South Sudan Defense Force (SSDN) Bul Nuer forces. The SSUA was supported by the Government of Sudan. In September 1999 commander Peter Gadet Yak of the SSDN mutinied, going over to the SPLA, and on 29 September shelled Mayom, causing further flight of civilians to Block 5A in
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