Mayom County is an administrative division of Unity State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan . It is located to the west of Bentiu . The county headquarters is Mayom town.
19-642: Mayom County is in the northwest of Unity State . The largest town is Mayom . Other towns are Tam , Mankien and Wang-kay . Large villages include Rier, Thargana, Buoth, Wicok and Toic. Mayom lies in the Block 4 oil concession to the south of the Kaikang oilfield . Around 1982, encouraged by the Sudan government, Baggara people started to arrive in the Mayom region from the north, armed with automatic rifles. That year
38-513: A decree establishing 28 states in place of the 10 that was previously established. The decree established the new states largely along ethnic lines. A number of opposition parties challenged the constitutionality of this decree and the decree was referred to parliament for approval as a constitutional amendment. In November, the South Sudanese parliament approved the creation of the new states. In January 2017, President Salva Kiir stated
57-562: A decreed of further subdivision of the country from 28 into 32 states. In February 2020, as a result of a peace agreement that ended the South Sudanese Civil War , the country returned to the original 10 states plus two administrative areas, Greater Pibor and Ruweng , and the special administrative status area of Abyei . As a result of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005,
76-628: Is a state in South Sudan . Unity State is in the Greater Upper Nile region. Unity is inhabited predominantly by two ethnic groups: the Nuer majority, and the Dinka minority. In 2015, a presidential decree established a new system of 28 states, replacing the previously established 10. Unity State was replaced by the states of Ruweng , Northern Liech and Southern Liech . Unity State
95-459: Is the state's primary economic activity. Many people of the state are nomadic agro-pastoralists who engage in both agriculture and rearing of livestock, especially cattle. Farming is primarily conducted during the rainy season, although some cultivation also occurs during summer. Vegetables are not widely cultivated, as most farmers are rural rather than urban, and therefore lack access to markets for their produce. Some NGOs have introduced farmers to
114-688: The Abyei Area is considered to be simultaneously part of the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan, effectively a condominium . The Kafia Kingi area is disputed between South Sudan and Sudan and the Ilemi Triangle is disputed between South Sudan and Kenya. Under the terms of a peace agreement signed on 22 February 2020, South Sudan is divided into ten states, two administrative areas and one area with special administrative status. The states and administrative areas are grouped into
133-634: The Muglad rift basin and contains an estimated 150,000,000 barrels (24,000,000 m ) of oil. The Greater Nile Oil Pipeline begins in the Unity oilfield. States of South Sudan The States of South Sudan were created out of the three historic former provinces (and contemporary regions) of Bahr el Ghazal (northwest), Equatoria (southern), and Greater Upper Nile (northeast). The states are further divided into 79 counties . In October 2015, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit issued
152-517: The SPLM-IO and former vice president Riek Machar declared the 10 states of South Sudan dissolved and the formation of 21 new states in a federal system. The declaration was not recognised by the South Sudanese government. The Sudan Tribune reported on 1 January 2015 that Machar appointed "military governors" for several of his declared states. These states became defunct when the SPLM-IO joined
171-505: The Baggara stole about 500 cattle from the Nuer and Dinka people. The Second Sudanese Civil War began in 1983. In March 1985 there was a fight between Baggara raiders and combined SPLA and Anyanya II forces led by Major Bul Nyawan in which the Baggara were defeated, leading to relative peace between the Baggara and Nuer. In 1987 and 1988 the region was hit by famine due to the conflict between
190-750: The January 2011 referendum 98 people voted for unity with Sudan while 80,364 voted for secession. 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 the government of Southern Sudan to be replaced by a national broad-base transitional government. Officials accused
209-426: The January 2011 referendum there was a drive for disarmament. 1,700 guns were handed in to the authorities. County Commissioner Colonel John Madeng Gatduel said this cleared the way for peaceful negotiations between payams (administrative units) that had been engaged in conflict in the past. He noted however that there was a risk of violence spilling over from Warrap State to the east, which had not yet disarmed. In
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#1732780886417228-649: The Khartoum government of supporting Gadet's militia and others in an effort to destabilize the country prior to independence. An SPLA spokesperson said the declaration was not written in Mayom but in Khartoum by Sudan Armed Forces intelligence working with the rebels. In April 2011 there was a clash in Mayom County between Misseriya tribesmen from the north and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops. A Misseriya spokesman denied links to rebel militias in
247-491: The army, Anyanya 2 and SPLA which had led to villages being burned, mass killings and widespread displacement of people. Mayom was presumably badly hit, but there were no relief agencies to record the progress of the famine. During the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) many residents of Mayom County had obtained AK-47 automatic rifles, hand grenades and other type of small-arms. In preparation for
266-519: The fighting. Charles Machieng was told to apologize for his comments. When he refused, on 30 June 2011 the state governor Taban Deng Gai gave him the sack. Machieng, a son-in-law of the governor, had been appointed in place of John Madeng Gatduel on 7 March 2011. The appointment had been criticized by the Bull Nuer community of Mayom county since they had not been consulted. Unity (state) Unity State , also known as Western Upper Nile ,
285-500: The oilfields to leave the state at once. Later in May 2011 there was fighting between the SPLA and Gadet's rebel militia. The Mayom Commissioner Charles Machieng Kuol reported that 7,800 homes had been burnt down in the Loath, Wanam and Bora bomas , subdivisions of the county, accusing the SPLA of causing the damage. SPLA Major-General Koang Chuol said the damage was caused by cross-fire in
304-455: The practice of cultivation for market. Southern Sudan's first oil reserves were discovered in the area during the 1970s. The international oil companies which engaged in oil exploration contributed to massive displacement of the indigenous population. Oilfields in the state include the Unity oilfield and most of Block 5A . The Unity oilfield is within the largest hydrocarbon accumulation in
323-451: The region, saying "We attacked an SPLA base to return 1,700 cows that the SPLA had stolen from us". According to the spokesman 11 of his tribe died and 22 were injured during the attack. Earlier that month, SPLA troops had fought with Gadet's rebels in a Mayom County village the militia had taken over and then burned, with twenty army troops losing their lives. Following that clash, the Unity state government ordered all north Sudanese workers in
342-524: The three former historical provinces of the Sudan: Bahr el Ghazal , Equatoria , Greater Upper Nile . Each state is headed by a Governor and administrative areas are led by Chief Administrators. On 14 January 2017, President Kiir issued a presidential decree that increased the number of federal states from 28 to 32. The 32 states were as follows: Note: - includes Bari, Lokoya and Nyangwara communities On 22 December 2014, leader of
361-691: Was re-established by a peace agreement signed on 22 February 2020 with smaller boundaries as the northern part of the former state became the Ruweng Administrative Area . The capital of Unity state is Bentiu . Before an administrative reorganization in 1994, Unity was part of a much larger province of Upper Nile, and the state was sometimes called Western Upper Nile. The counties of Unity are: Large towns in Unity include Bentiu , Mayom , Rubkona and Leer . Other towns include Riangnom , Rub-Koni , Yoahnyang , Tam , Mankien , Wang-Kay , Koch , Nyal and Ganyliel . Agriculture
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