Yei River County is on South Sudan's southern border, connecting it to trade routes through Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Following independence, Yei River County was regarded as a stable area with significant development in terms of government institutions, educational facilities, and healthcare.

Yei County is located along South Sudan’s southern border, linking it to trade routes through Uganda as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Following independence, Yei County was seen as a stable area with comparably significant development in terms of government institutions, educational facilities and healthcare.

Yei River State, along with Jubek State and Terekeka State was part of the former state of Central Equatoria. The capital and largest city of Yei River State is Yei, South Sudan, with the city having an estimated population of 260,720 in 2014. [5]

Jun 22, 2024 · CENTRAL EQUATORIA - Persistent violence by armed groups has been raised as the top concern for communities and local authorities in Yei and Lainya in the Central Equatoria region during a peace...

Yei River County is an administrative area in Central Equatoria with a large population of people who settled in that particular county. Aggrey Cyrus Kanyikwa is the current commissioner for Yei River County.

JUBA CITY, August 2, 2024 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has expressed deep concern over the increasing number of abductions in the greater Yei region of Central Equatoria state, with the National Salvation …

Oct 18, 2017 · YEI, South Sudan (AP) — Until the summer of 2016, South Sudan’s Yei region was a leafy oasis in the midst of the country’s civil war. But when a national peace deal broke down and government soldiers ransacked the area, a handful of U.N. and U.S. officials begged their leaders for help.

Sep 30, 2016 · Urgent humanitarian assistance is needed for some 100,000 people trapped in the South Sudanese town of Yei, where the security situation deteriorated rapidly after renewed conflict broke out in...

Jul 5, 2024 · The commissioner of Yei County says National Salvation Front's a splinter group attacked outskirts of Yei town; South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth says the new peace records progress; University of Bahr El Ghazal teaching staff took to …

Sep 30, 2016 · UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is increasingly concerned for the safety and well-being of some 100,000 people trapped in Yei, South Sudan – a town situated in Central Equatoria State, about 150 kilometres south-west of Juba.