Jonglei
Proper noun
Meaning
Jonglei
A state of South Sudan.
Examples
According to a local radio station, Igga arrived in Bor on Sunday leading a high-level committee to conduct meetings with elders from Jonglei and Pibor Administrative Area to resolve perpetual inter-communal conflicts.
According to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the inter-communal conflict in the Greater Jonglei area has killed hundreds of people and thousands of others forced to flee the area.
In the neighboring Jonglei State, residents of Bor town and well-wishers continue to wade off flash floods by building untenable dykes.
President Kiir is yet to appoint governors for Jonglei and Greater Pibor Administrative Area.
But Manyang dismissed any suggestion the rebels had attacked in revenge for alleged abuses in Pibor by the army, which has been carrying out disarmament in Jonglei following ethnic violence at the start of the year.
Oil reserves have been discovered in five states: Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Lakes, Upper Nile and Jonglei.