Yirol East County


Awerial County is a county in Lakes State, South Sudan. The county borders Panyijar County in the North, Rumbek East County in the North west, Yirol West County in the west, Awerial County in the south, Bor South County in the south east and Twic East County in the east. Shambe National Park as well as Ramciel are located in Awerial County.

Administrative divisions

In 2016, Yirol East County was reorganized into four counties, which included the following:
  1. Adior County; headquarters: Adior
  2. Lou County; headquarters: Nyang
  3. Ramciel County; headquarters: Malek
  4. Yirol North County; headquarters: Yali

List of commissioners of Yirol East County

Yirol East County was carved out from Yirol County in 2005 just after signing of Comprehensive peace agreement. The list of commissioners is as follows:
  1. Majok Machar 2005 - 2006 was the founder of Yirol county
  2. Athian Majak Malou 2006-2008
  3. Santo Mading Domic 2008- 2010
  4. Bullen Bol Achinbai 15 August 2010- 2012
  5. Manyang Luk 2012-2015
  6. Various commissioners ruled when Four counties were created by the time South Sudan was expanded to 32 states namely Yirol East, Yirol North, Malek and Nyang, 2 Oct 2015- 22 Feb 2020
  7. Malual Achiek appointed when South Sudan revert to 10 states and 3 administrative areas per the peace deal with SPLM-IO, 2020- 2022
  8. Manyang Luk Lueth 2022- incumbent

Payams

Yirol East County is composed of seven payams:
  1. Adior
  2. Billing
  3. Tinagau
  4. Malek
  5. Yali
  6. Lek-ha-kudu
  7. Pagarau
It also includes Nyang Town, the headquarters.

Adior Payam

Adior Payam (Palual Juet) is one of the Seven Payams of Yirol East county located at 28 km East of Nyang town, the headquarters of Yirol East county. It borders Panyijar County of unity state to the north, Duk and Twic East counties of Jonglei State to the northeast and east respectively, Malek Payam to the south, Nyang Town and Tinagau Payam to the west.
The inhabitant of Adior Payam was Ajhäk, and the subdivision of Ajhäk are now Ajut, Angöör, Dhïïm and Luok. in 1980s :Ajut, Angöör and Luok unified themselves under one name as Pirchik and still considered Pirchik as subsection of Ajhäk, while Dhïïm remained as Dhïïm Matung-nguan.
The Bomas of Adior Payam are Ayiem, Billing, Machar Achiek, And Shambe. Shambe national park and Lake Shambe (Mabör Anyoop) are also located in Adior Payam. The population of Adior was 14,780 people, according to the 2008 population Census.

Chiefdoms in Yirol East County (Ciec Manyiel) during colonial era and their leaders

Yirol East County has four chiefdoms:
  1. Ador and Gok chiefdom, their leader was Ater Bar.
  2. Gok chiefdom under Reech Amou.
  3. Kuac chiefdom under Chep Aciek.
  4. Ajak chiefdom under Takpiny Malual.
In 1946, British created paramount chief, this creation brought the first two chiefdoms under one chiefdom named Ador and their leader was Anyieth Reech, but later separated in 1976-1977, Ador under Reech Ater later lost to Manyang Jok in local elections and Gok under Dhieu Anyieth later succeeded by his brother Reech Anyieth in 1977.
Before the paramount chief was created, the chiefdoms were as follows:Ador and Gok: A group of diverse origin united for defensive purposes
Gok breakdown into Bwong under Alueth Kwaiwel and Ajwong, Aleu under Kong Tong whereas
Ador breask down into pirchek and Dhiim
  • Gok: People living in a sandy area inland from kenisa in the East, Keriem in the North, Papiu and Ramciel in the South and Alaakic in the west. Gok has the following breakdown; Lual and Ding under Luk Acok, Doot under Benydit Reechh Amou, Awan under Malual Abongbar and Ding under Matot Achinpuou.
  • Ajak: Ajak breaks down into Dwour and Cilik.
  • Kuac chiefdom: Kuac breaks down into Ding, Cirbek, Jalwa under Jok Angwac, Nyuiny under Riak Jam, Pakol under Aceng Puou, Jaar under Mamair Majok, Pajak, Ajwuong under Akuc Kacwal.

Climate

The district's yearly temperature is 32.05 °C and it is 2.55% higher than South Sudan's averages. Yirol typically receives about 97.39 millimeters of precipitation and has 128.95 rainy days annually.