Magwi
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Magwi, also Magwe, is a district located in the Sudanese state of East Equatoria. It is bordered by Central Equatoria to the west and the Ugandan district of Gulu to the south.[1] The White Nile enters the district near the town of Nimule, before flowing north along the eastern border. The county is divided into two payams: Magwe and Pageri. Magwi town is the district seat, comprising one small building.[2] The county is a located on the major road connecting Gulu to the south to Torit towards the north..[3] Much of the population is Acholi, the only significant Acholi population outside of Acholiland in Uganda.[4]
During the Second Sudanese Civil War, the government-aligned SPLA-United established a Magwe corridor, establishing lines of communication with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda in early 1993. A counteroffensive by the Sudan People's Liberation Army in October 1995 recaptured the corridor.[5] The district has been severely affected by the LRA insurgency.[3][4] In January 2007, an Indian peacekeeper of the United Nations Mission in Sudan was killed by unknown assailants near Magwe town.[6]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Map of Magwe County, April 2004PDF (34.1 KiB), unsudanig.org
- ^ Sudan Report, Sudan Partnership Weblog, 11 June 2006
- ^ a b Interagency Assessment Report of the LRA Affected Populations, Magwe County, Eastern Equatoria StatePDF (74.5 KiB), UNOCHA, September 2006
- ^ a b "Acholi elders to Juba to save talks", New Vision, 8 February 2007
- ^ 1997 United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for the Sudan, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
- ^ "Ban Ki-moon calls for probe into murder of peacekeeper in southern Sudan", UN News Centre, 26 January 2007
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