Kongor is a community in

Jonglei Jonglei State is a state of South Sudan with Bor as its centre of government and the biggest city. Jonglei state comprises nine counties: Bor, Akobo, Ayod, Uror, Duk, Nyirol, Pigi, Twic East, and Fangak. Jonglei State is the largest st ...

state,

South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the ...

. It was earlier in Kongor Payam in

Twic East County Twic East County is a county located in Jonglei State, South Sudan. Its headquarters were located at Panyagor Panyagor (alternatively spelled Panyagoor) is the county headquarters of Twic North County, Jonglei State, South Sudan. Panyagor was ...

. Twic east is in

Dinka The Dinka people ( din, Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan with a sizable diaspora population abroad. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Jonglei to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out ...

territory. The village is to the east of the White Nile and about north of Bor. The area is subject to flood and drought depending on the season. The people are pastoralists, with an economy based on cattle which demands seasonal migration in search of good pasture. Twic east was to become a diocese of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Sudan, to be split out from Bor Diocese. There were delays, and in April 2009 the clergy unilaterally declared that Kongor was a diocese in a letter to the Rt. Reverend Nathaniel Garang Anyieth, Bishop of Bor Diocese. The root of the problem was insistence on the name "Kongor" for the diocese, while the other seven ''payams'' in Twic East county preferred the name "Twic East". It is now having three clan that include Padal, Apetloc and Bioodit. The early activist leader

Joseph Oduho Joseph Oduho Haworu (15 December 1927 – 27 March 1993) was a leading politician from South Sudan who was active in the struggle for independence and a founding member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). He was part of ...

, one of the founders of the

Sudan People's Liberation Movement The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM; ar, الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان, ''Al-Ḥarakat ash-Shaʿbiyyat liTaḥrīr as-Sūdān'') is a political party in South Sudan. It was initially founded as the political w ...

(SPLM), was killed during a fight that broke out between SPLM factions at a meeting in Kongor on 27 March 1993.

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{{Jonglei Populated places in Jonglei State Twic East County