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15 unusual facts about Juba


Aliab Dinka

When hostilities resumed in 1983 with the Second Sudanese Civil War there was a violent reaction against the Dinka, with many being killed by the Mundari in Juba.

Banking in South Sudan

The Sudanese central bank operated branches in South Sudan in the cities of Juba, Wau, and Malakal.

Freedom of religion in Sudan

In April 2008 a delegation of the World Council of Churches toured the country, met with government officials in the north and GoSS officials in the south, and hosted a large nondenominational Christian festival in Juba.

Gordon Muortat Mayen

The great massacres of Juba, Wau and all over the South that were carried out by the Sudanese army in July 1965 frustrated and convinced Gordon Muortat that the Northern Arab rulers were not interested in the peaceful resolution of the South Sudan Question.

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.

Ismail al-Azhari

In 1961 al-Azhari was arrested and exiled for several months to Juba in Southern Sudan.

Leonard Sharland

In 1932 Leonard’s brother, Charles, who was a cabinet maker, went out to southern Sudan to Loka and to start a trade school in Lainya, west of Juba.

Moru language

An adult literacy primer 'Buzevosite' was also produced in the 1970s and published by New Day Publishers in Juba.

Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi

This alliance was a cunning plan by both al Fadil and the SPLM to device both southern and northern political forces together and was born out of the Conference of Political Parties held in Juba in September 2009; this conference was both conceptualized and coordinated by Sayed Mubarak El-Fadil El-Mahdi.

Religion in South Sudan

The South Sudanese President Kiir, a Roman Catholic, while speaking at Saint Theresa Cathedral in Juba, South Sudan, stated that South Sudan would be a nation which respects freedom of religion.

Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa

In 1950, after the abandonment of the Southern Policy, a colonial policy that isolated Southern Sudan from education and economic development, Al-Khalifa was appointed as a Provincial Education Officer at Equatoria Province in Juba.

South Sudan Scout Association

The organization operates the Rejaf Scouts Farm in Juba.

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.

Tony Atkins

From 1973 to 1980 he served with the Africa Committee for the Rehabilitation of Southern Sudan in Juba and Darfur.

Water supply in South Sudan

Japan, through its agency JICA, finances the expansion of the existing system in the capital, Juba.


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.

Bardera Polytechnic

Juba Valley Agricultural Institute (Italian: Juba Valle Istituto Agrario)is part of the college system and the focus is developing the economic sectors of the district and region which was neglected for close to two decades.

Herod Archelaus

She was the widow of Archelaus' brother Alexander, though her second husband, Juba, king of Mauretania, was alive.

Igbo American

Names found in records such as Anica, or Anakey, Breechy and Juba may originate respectively from the Igbo names Nneka, meaning the mother is superior, and mburichi, male members of the Kingdom of Nri and Jiugba, meaning yam barn.

Independent candidates, 1999 Manitoba provincial election

Juba later contested the Mynarski ward in the 2002 Winnipeg municipal elections, and placed third against Harry Lazarenko with 1,138 votes.

Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken

She was a senior civil servant in the Government of Southern Sudan who lost her life alongside her husband Minister for SPLA Affairs General Dominic Dim Deng, senior politician Dr. Justin Yac Arop and 18 other Sudan People's Liberation Army/Government officials on a leased CEM Air Beechcraft 1900 that crashed 375 km west of Juba, Sudan on May 2, 2008.

Juba Declaration of 8 January 2006

Shortly after the Juba declaration was signed, Brigadier Gordon Kong proclaimed himself the new SSDF Commander-in-Chief, saying that his forces still supported the Sudan Government.

General Peter Gadet, who joined the SPLA after Juba Declaration, said that he was marginalized and that the army was dominated by tribal nepotism.

Jussi Tuomola

Tuomola's square-shaped signature "JUBA" was inspired by a similar signature by Jean "Moebius" Giraud.

Kapoeta South County

On 4 February 2011 the U.S. Consul General in Juba and Eastern Equatoria state Governor Louis Lobong Lojore formally opened an 894-kilowatt power plant in Kapoeta, built using funding from USAID.

Media of South Sudan

The US based and USAID financed Internews media development organization has set up six radio stations in conflict sensitive areas, all of which operate under a loose network supported by the organization’s main office in Juba.

Music of Sudan

Southern Sudanese popular music was important in the 1970s and 1980s, with the capital Juba hosting nightclub bands like Rejaf Jazz and the Skylarks.

Oroonoko

There is a particular similarity to the story of Juba in La Calprenède's romance Cléopâtre, who becomes a slave in Rome and is given a Roman name—Coriolanus—by his captors, as Oroonoko is given the Roman name of Caesar.

Postage stamps and postal history of South Sudan

At the time of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between Khartoum and the SPLM/SPLA in Nairobi on 9 January 2005, only the post offices in the four garrison towns of Juba, Wau, Malakal and Renk remained open, but they hardly functioned.

Ptolemy of Mauretania

Further literary evidence, suggesting the deification of Juba II even Ptolemy, is from the brief euhemerist exercise entitled On the Vanity of Idols by the Christian Saint of the 3rd century, Cyprian.

Publius Sittius

It is recorded that Sittius enjoyed several successes against the enemies of Caesar (Ch. 36), including later the defeat of Juba's forces under Saburra, and the successful ambush of Faustus Cornelius Sulla and Lucius Afranius as they attempted to flee to Spain following their defeat by Caesar at Thapsus (Ch. 95).

Stephen Juba

(In 1966, Juba considered running in the provincial riding of Inkster against New Democrat Len Stevens, but withdrew after Sidney Green replaced Stevens as the NDP candidate.

Theophilus Ochang

In February 2007 Theophilus welcomed former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Juba.

Transport in Sudan

In the mid-1970s, IDA and the Saudi Development Fund agreed to make funds available for construction of new airports at Port Sudan and Wau, reconstruction and improvement of the airport at Malakal, and substantial upgrading of the Juba airport; these four airports accounted for almost half of domestic traffic.

United States Ambassador to South Sudan

General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State; Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and Ambassador R. Barrie Walkley inaugurating the new U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan on Independence Day, July 9, 2011.

Walkaround

At the start of the music, typically a fast dance song in 2/4 or 4/4 time, the dancers (who were already seated in a semicircle) stood and began clapping and slapping themselves in time ("patting Juba").

White Nile

The Bahr al Jabal passes through Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which is the southernmost navigable point on the Nile river system, and then to Kodok, the site of the 1898 Fashoda Incident that marked an end to the 'Scramble for Africa'.