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unusual facts about Bor, South Sudan


Aliab Dinka

3,000 Dinka men attacked the police post at Mekamon, near Bor, and killed several policemen.


Abyei status referendum

The Abyei status referendum is a delayed referendum that was originally due to be held in 2011 in which the residents of Abyei can decide either to remain part of the Sudanese South Kordofan region or to become part of the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan.

Adeso

It has now grown into an international organization working in three countries - Somalia, Kenya and South Sudan - with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Angakuei

The Angakuei people are members of the clan Keui, from Baidit Payam, Jonglei, South Sudan.

Bank of South Sudan

The bank maintains its headquarters in the city of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, with branches in the towns of Wau, and Yei and Malakal.

Battle of Krasny Bor

The afternoon brought belated support for the defenders in the form of a Luftwaffe fighter-bomber attack on the Soviet positions around the town of Kolpino, to the east of Krasny Bor, while the 45th Guards Rifle Division seized Mishkino.

BOR-4

After reentry, they were designed to parachute to an ocean splashdown for recovery by the Soviet Navy.

BOR-A 550

The radar operates on the I band, it is also man-portable and can locate targets up to a distance of 40 km in a 360° sector.

Bordharan

Bor Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary located Hingi Wardha District in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Crime in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is also a destination country for children trafficked from other Middle Eastern countries like Yemen, African countries like Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan and Asian nations like Pakistan and Afghanistan for the purpose of forced begging and involuntary servitude as street vendors.

David Yau Yau

David Yau Yau is (as of January 28, 2013) the leader of a Murle insurrection against the South Sudanese government in Jonglei state.

Eastern Equatoria

The Ilemi Triangle in the east, between Eastern Equatoria and Lake Turkana, is or has been disputed among all three abutting states (South Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia).

Further west, Lopa/Lafon, Torit and Ikwoto counties are inhabited by the Otuho, Lopit, Lango, Pari, and Tenet people who inhabit a portion of Lopit hills after they split from Didinga and Murle early in 19th century and Lokoya of Lowoi.

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

George Echom

In May 2011 Dinka Bor cattle herders trespassed into the Nimule and Mugali areas of the Madi people in Magwi County of Eastern Equatoria State, causing massive crop damage.

Ghoti people

Some surnames are specific only to Ghotis and Edeshis, like Ghosh,Adak, Adhikary, Bagui, Bhaduri,Bor or Bar, Daffadar, Dandapat,Dolui, De, Dey, Gorai, Guin, Chowdhury, Hazra, Hela, Jana, Karan, Karak, Karmakar, Kundu, Laha, Mahapatra, Maity, Middye, Modak, Nag, Nandi, Naskar, Nayak, Neogi, Paik, Pain, Pal, Panja, Patra, Sadhu, Sadhukhan, Samanta, Sardar, Sapui, Sasmal, Sett, She-al, Sinha, Tarafder, Topdar, Mihiracharyaa etc.

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids

The series was narrated by Nigel Planer and animated by Sara and Simon Bor of Wolves Witches & Giants fame.

Hungary in World War II

Approximately half of the six thousand Jewish forced laborers working in the copper mines in Bor, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) were executed by the Germans during the death march from Bor to Győr on August - October 1944, including the 35 year old poet Miklós Radnóti, shot at the Hungarian village of Abda being too weak to continue after a savage beating.

In Search of Janáček

The film reflects the complicated character of Janáček (performed by Hanuš Bor), his work and his relationship with his wife (Ilona Svobodová) and his mistress Kamila Stösslová (Zuzana Vejvodová).

Ines Putri

Ines travel to Juba, South Sudan on June 28 to became an international judge together with Miss Earth 2012 Tereza Fajksová to crown Miss South Sudan Beauties best representative to Miss Earth 2013 winner and Miss International 2013 1st runner up organized by Atong De Mach- Miss Earth South Sudan 2010/Miss World South Sudan 2012.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Jambyn Batmönkh

Batmönkh's reign contributed to the creation of major energy (the construction of Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet power stations, and the connection of the Central high-power electric grid with the Soviet Union's Siberian Grid) and mining (the beginning of the operations of Erdenet and Baganuur coal mines, and Bor-Ondor gypsum mine) infrastructure, together with, various other light production and food processing factories.

Jan Bor

Jan Bor, real name Jan Jaroslav Strejček (16 February 1886 in Prague – 25 March 1943 in Zámostí, Hluboká nad Vltavou) was a Czech director and playwright.

John Dau

Currently, Dau is the president of the John Dau Foundation which was founded in July 2007 to start and develop health facilities for most of the populations of Duk, Twic East and Bor South counties in the state of Jonglei in South Sudan.

Leung Sing-Bor

Leung Sing Bor is widely known to be one of the pioneers of TVB, being one of its first actors to join TVB, and also hosted the popular Enjoy Yourself Tonight show in Hong Kong for many years till his death.

During the World War II, when the Japanese attacked Hong Kong, Leung brought his family to escape to Guangzhou to Macau then to Guangxi At Guangxi, he formed a Cantonese opera troupe there and performed in various towns of Guangxi.

Loka, Koper

Toponyms of the same origin are also found in other Slavic countries (e.g., Polish Łąka, Serbian Luka, Bulgarian Shiroka Laka, etc.

Lul

Lul is a Shilluk village located on the western bank of the Nile river, approximately one and a half hours by boat north from the city of Malakal, in Upper Nile province in South Sudan.

Mary Boyoi

Mary Boyoi, singer, human rights activist and philanthropist, is from the Murle tribe of South Sudan.

Mayureswar Wildlife Sanctuary

Main species of plants present at the sanctuary include Acacia catechu (Khair), Acacia sp (Hivar), Dalbergia latifolia (Sisoo), Ziziphus mauritiana (Bor), Carissa opasa, Alysicarpus bupleurifolius, Cyathocline purpurea, Eriocauion diane, Merremia marginata, Cucumis melo, Cyperus kyllingia, Striaga densiflora and Mereilea minuta.

Miklós Radnóti

The battalion assigned to the Ukrainian front, and then in May 1944 the Hungarian Army retreated and his battalion was transferred to the copper mines in Bor, Serbia.

Mursi people

They principally reside in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, close to the border with South Sudan.

Ousmane Sow

Inspired by the photographs of the Nuba peoples in southern Sudan, made by Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), he changed his career in order to work from 1984 to 1987 on a series of sculptures of muscular Nuba wrestlers.

Pakwach

The Albert Nile - The river exits Lake Albert just south of the town, and winds its way towards Uganda's border with South Sudan at Nimule

Pied bat

Following a 2013 capture in South Sudan, only the fifth recorded capture of the species, the pied bat was determined to be of a new genus entirely, Niumbaha, named after the Zande word for "rare".

RTB Bor

Copper mining is the key basis of Bor's economy and the effects of decreased production could be seen all over the town.

Sia lives on Kilimanjaro

Sia lives on Kilimanjaro (original Swedish title: Sia bor på Kilimandjaro) is a children's book written by Astrid Lindgren and with photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick.

Sudanese goat marriage incident

The Sudanese goat marriage incident was a 2006 event and publicity surrounding the 2006 event in which a Christian South Sudanese man was forced to "marry" a goat with which he was caught engaging in sexual activity (bestiality) in the Hai Malakal suburb of Juba, South Sudan.

Telephone numbers in South Sudan

South Sudan has been issued the +211 code by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and the government said it would become active within 48 hours of recognition of the country by the United Nations.

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (In Russian: Soyuz' Bor'bi za Osvobozhdeniye Narodov Rossii, Союз Борьбы за Освобождение Народов России, abbreviated as SBONR, СБОНР) was an organization of anti-communist Russians, regardless of ethnic origin, which emerged from the youth organization of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.

Wentawo

Part of the Nuer Zone, Wentawo is bordered on the south by Akobo, on the west and north by South Sudan, on the east by Jikawo, and on the southeast by Anuak Zone; the Akobo to the west and the Baro River on the north define Wentawo's boundaries with South Sudan.

White Nile

The river continues north to Nimule, where it enters South Sudan and becomes known as the Bahr al Jabal ('Sea of the Mountain', possibly from Nahr al Jabal, 'River of the Mountain').

William Nyuon Bany

It is not clear whether Commander William was part of the Anyanya 1, however before the war broke out in Southern Town of Bor, he served as a Major in the Sudanese army in Ayot.

Yei, South Sudan

Three commercial banks maintain branches in the city: Equity Bank (South Sudan), Ivory Bank, and Kenya Commercial Bank (South Sudan).

Ivory Bank and Kenya Commercial Bank maintain a branches in the city.


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