Kolnyang is a
Payam in Bor County, in
Jonglei
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South Sudan
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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 South Sudan’s central region, being the epicenter of national liberation revolution with multiple landmarks that tells the story. In Malual-Chaat barrack, statues of liberators and destroyed weapons are conserved ...
. 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
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. Malek was the first CMS
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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
Bor.
Llewellyn Gwynne
Llewellyn Henry Gwynne (11 June 18639 December 1957) was a Welsh Anglican bishop and missionary. He was the first Anglican Bishop of Egypt and Sudan, serving from 1920 to 1946.
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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.
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remained there; the others had all left, owing to a combination of ill-health and frustration.
A
Church Mission Society
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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.
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, 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 ]Demographics of South Sudan
South Sudan is home to around 60 indigenous ethnic groups and 80 linguistic partitions among a population of around million. Historically, most ethnic groups were lacking in formal Western political institutions, with land held by the communit ...
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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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