Yambio

4.5828.39Koordinaten: 4 ° 35 'N, 28 ° 23' O

Yambio (Arabic يامبيو Yāmbiyū; alternative spelling Yambiyo ) is the capital of the state of Western Equatoria ( Western Equatoria ) in southern Sudan.

The city lies near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo near the source of the Sue, the source of the river Bahr el Ghazal.

Yambio has 31 586 inhabitants (calculated 2009). These are mainly Azande.

Population development:

There is a Roman Catholic diocese of Tambura - Yambio. The people of Yambio and the area is threatened by occasional battles between feuding ethnic groups and raids of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA ) ( early 2009 ).

The place name is derived from Yambio, a chief of the Azande end of the 19th century, who resisted the British and Belgian conquest of the area. After his death Yambios yard ( gbanwa ) seat of an item of the colonial administration.

In the second war of secession in South Sudan Yambio was until 1989 under the control of the Sudanese government, after which it was taken by the rebels of the SPLA. The local Azande were dominated by Dinka SPLA rather reserved about, many left after their arrival the city.