Panyijar County

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Panyijar County
NYUONG
County
Nickname: 
Gaatdool
Motto: 
Strength with diversity
Country Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan
Region Greater Upper Nile
State Unity State
Government
  TypeTown council
  CommissionershipGabriel Majok Bol Mani
Area
  Total2,060 sq mi (5,340 km2)
Population
 (2017 estimate [1] )
  Total76,152
  Density37/sq mi (14/km2)
Time zone UTC+2 (CAT)

Panyijar County is an administrative division of Unity State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. [2]

Panyijar County was "once a thriving agricultural area before decades of war forced inhabitants to migrate elsewhere." [3]

"The United Nations says that up to 40,000 people are displaced to islands in the Bahr el Jebel River and surrounding wetlands in Unity State’s Panyijar County. Payinjiar County is the southernmost in Unity State and was the last place of refuge for thousands of people who fled southward during government offensives into Unity State from the northwest in January and February. The Nyuongland becomes a safe place until the R-ARCSS signed on September 12 2018. The county was also attacked by government Forces and backed cattle raiders from neighboring Lakes State. At the county headquarters about half of the houses have been burned down, as well as villages elsewhere." [4]

The county experienced heavy fighting in 2015 between "South Sudanese opposition forces (SPLA-IO) and forces loyal to Salva Kiir (SPLA-Juba)" [5]

As of March, 2016 malnutrition among the county's children "far exceeded international emergency thresholds." One technical assessment expert for Action Against Hunger and the South Sudan Nutrition Information Working Group, reporting that “In my entire career, I have never seen such an alarmingly high prevalence of Global Acute Malnutrition anywhere ... The data clearly indicates that in Panyijar, the emergency is quite severe.” [6]

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