Greater Pibor Administrative Area

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|leader_title = Chief Administrator

|leader_name = Gola Boyoi

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The Greater Pibor Administrative Area is an administrative area in South Sudan.{{Cite web |url=http://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article57258 |title=South Sudan’s GPAA official refutes contest for governorship seat |access-date=2016-08-11 |archive-date=2016-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812022900/http://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article57258 |url-status=dead }}{{cite tweet|number=1228596792155000833|user=dekuekd|title=So it has been decided that #SouthSudan shall revert to 10 states plus Abyei, Pibor and Ruweng Administrative Areas. |date=15 February 2020}}

History

From the beginning of South Sudanese independence, the Anyuak, Jie, Kachepo, and Murle people in Jonglei sought greater autonomy from the Jonglei State government dominated by Nuer and Dinka. The resulting armed insurrections against the Government of South Sudan, initially dispersed, coalesced into the South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army (SSDM/A), which in turn was ultimately dominated by David Yau Yau and his Cobra Faction. Peace negotiations in the spring of 2014 led to a compromise that carved out two counties of Pibor and Pochalla within Jonglei state to create the new semi-autonomous Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA).{{cite journal|last1=Todisco|first1=Claudio|editor1-last=LeBrun|editor1-first=Emile|title=Real but Fragile: The Greater Pibor Administrative Area|journal=Small Arms Survey|date=March 2015|issue=35|accessdate=16 September 2015|publisher=Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies|url=http://www.smallarmssurveysudan.org/fileadmin/docs/working-papers/HSBA-WP35-Greater-Pibor.pdf}}

The special administrative area was dissolved after the creation of Boma State in 2015.{{cite news|title=Yau Yau Dissolves Part and Officially Joins SPLM|url=http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/18307/Yau-Yau-Dissolves-Party-And-Officially-Joins-SPLM.aspx|publisher=Gurtong|date=12 January 2016|accessdate=14 August 2016|archive-date=5 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405184228/http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/18307/Yau-Yau-Dissolves-Party-And-Officially-Joins-SPLM.aspx|url-status=dead}}{{cite news| title=Calm in Pibor after tension over 'disarmament' and governor|url=http://www.eyeradio.org/calm-pibor-tension-disarmament-governor/|publisher=Eye Radio|date=2 February 2016|accessdate=14 August 2016}}{{cite news|date=24 December 2015|title=South Sudan's President appoints 28 Governors, defies peace agreement|publisher=South Sudan News Agency|url=http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/index.php/2015/12/24/south-sudans-president-appoints-28-governors-defies-peace-agreement/}}

As a result of a peace agreement signed in February 2020, Boma State was dissolved and Pibor was reconstituted as a special administrative area.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/6-years-war-peace-finally-south-sudan-200223114919537.html|title = After 6 years of war, will peace finally come to South Sudan?}}

Towns and cities

The capital of the state is Pibor.{{cn|date=April 2022}} The population of Pibor was estimated at less than 1,000 people in 2005.{{cn|date=April 2022}} The town of Pochalla in Pochalla County lies directly on the border with Ethiopia.{{cn|date=April 2022}} The town is about 470 kilometers (290 miles) from Juba via road.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

Chief Administrators

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