Lakes State is a state in South Sudan. It has an area of 43,595.08 km2. Rumbek is the capital of the state. Lakes is in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan, in addition to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, and Warrap states. Bahr el Ghazal itself was a former province which was split from the Anglo-Egyptian mudiriyat, or province of Equatoria in 1948. The eastern border was the White Nile with Jonglei State on the opposite bank. To the northeast lied the Unity State. Other borders included Warrap State towards the northwest, Western Equatoria to the south and west, and Central Equatoria to the south.
Rumbek is the capital of Lakes State in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan.
Wau is a town, locally referred to as a city, in northwestern South Sudan on the western bank of Jur River It is the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. It lies approximately 650 kilometres (400 mi) northwest of the capital, Juba. It is a diverse small urban center (town) and a trading hub. The city has been a municipality since 2012 and is governed by a mayor who the state governor usually appoints. The city comprises several neighborhoods including Nazareth, Hai Fahal, Sika Hadid, and Daraja.
The Diocese of Wau is a Latin Church is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in South Sudan. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba, and depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Yirol is a city in South Sudan.
Upper Nile University (UNU) is a university in South Sudan.
University of Northern Bahr el Ghazal (UNBEG) is a university in South Sudan.
Rumbek University is a university in South Sudan.
Joseph Ukel Abango, commonly known as Joseph Ukel, was a veteran-politician of what is now South Sudan and an educationalist by profession.
Dr. John Garang Memorial University Of Science and Technology (DrJGMUST) is a public university in the Republic of South Sudan. The school is named after the Sudanese Politician John Garang.
Wau State was a state in South Sudan that existed between 2 October 2015 and 22 February 2020. It was located in the Bahr el Ghazal region, and was part of the former state of Western Bahr el Ghazal. Wau State bordered Aweil State, Gbudwe State, Gogrial State, Lol State, and Tonj State.
Western Lakes was a state in South Sudan that existed between 2 October 2015 and 22 February 2020. It was located in the Bahr el Ghazal region and was part of the former state of Lakes State. It bordered Amadi State, Eastern Lakes State, Gbudwe State, Gok, Maridi State, Southern Liech State, and Tonj State.
Lt. Gen. Elias Waya Nyipuoch is a South Sudanese was born in 1958 in Luo land, Bahr el-Gazal Region, he holds a Master's Degree in Military Strategy from Khartoum High Academy Military Sciences (1992) in Sudan. He obtained his Sudan School Certificate in 1977 and joined University of Cairo, Khartoum Branch, between 1977 and 1979. Also he joined Sudan Military College and was awarded Diploma in Military Science in 1981. He took many professional military courses in the Sudan, the United Kingdom (2007), the USA (2004) and in Switzerland (2005), among others. He is currently an enrolled student of Political Science in University of Juba. Lt. Gen. Elias Waya had enjoyed many successful assignments in the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) after his graduation from Sudan Military College. He was deployed between1981 to 1985 to Eastern Command, Kassala and Gadaraf, from where he was shortly assigned to Kapoeta Garrison in 1983. Also he was deployed to Northern Command, 3rd Division in Shendi where he was transferred to Nasir Garrison Command between 1986 and 1989.
The 2014 retreat from Western Bahr el Ghazal, also called the long march north, was an unorganized withdrawal by hundreds of Nuer Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) deserters who sought to flee from Bahr el Ghazal to Sudan during the South Sudanese Civil War. After longstanding tensions between SPLA soldiers belonging to the Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups escalated on 25 April 2014, leading to a massacre of Nuer soldiers at Mapel in Western Bahr el Ghazal, a large number of Nuer SPLA soldiers deserted to escape ethnic prosecution and loyalist SPLA forces. Though some deserters joined SPLM-IO rebels or surrendered to the government, a large number of them marched northward, joined by other SPLA defectors from Northern Bahr el Ghazal. After covering over 400 kilometres (250 mi), this trek eventually arrived in Sudan on 4 August 2014, where they were disarmed.
Isaiah Kulang Mabor DengDak Anguany was a South Sudanese politician who was Minister for Communications, Transport and Roads and member of the People's Regional Assembly, in the capital of Juba, serving as Speaker of the House between 1979 and 1980. Kulang was a prominent member of the Southern Front by then and in the late 1980s he participated actively in founding the United Sudan African Party (USAP).
Sarah Cleto Hassan Rial is a South Sudanese politician and human rights activist who was the governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal from 2020 until 2024. She was the only woman among the eight governors appointed by President Salva Kiir on June 30, 2020.
Agak Achuil Lual is a South Sudanese Politician. He served as the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning since November 2021 under the Transitional Government of National Unity, was relieved in August 2022.
Stephen Buay Rolnyang is a South Sudanese rebel leader of SSPM/A and former SSPDF general. He founded the SPLA elite force in 2006. Rolnyang belongs to Nuer.
Kuyok Abol Kuyok is a South Sudanese academic, author, and civil servant.
