Juba

History

Under the Khedivate of Egypt, Juba served as the southernmost garrison of the Egyptian Army, quartering only a handful of soldiers. Disease was common; soldiers often fell ill due to the malaria, meningitis and blackwater fever that was prevalent in the region. Explorers and campaigners Samuel Baker and Florence Baker used the nearby island of Gondokoro as a base during their expeditions to what is now South Sudan and northern Uganda from 1863 to 1865 and 1871 to 1873. The present city of Juba was established on the site of a small Bari village, also called Juba, where the Church Missionary Society (CMS) had established a mission and the Nugent Memorial Intermediate School in 1920–21. In the late 1920s, Anglo-Egyptian officials ordered Bari residents to relocate so that a new town could be constructed to serve as the capital of Mongalla Province. The site was chosen by Anglo-Egyptian officials partly because of the presence of the CMS Nugent Memorial Intermediate School there, and partly because its proximity to river transportation on the Nile. Major construction of the new city of Juba was underway by 1927. Traders from Rejaf relocated to the new city in 1929, and the Governor's office of Mongalla was moved there in 1930. Greek merchants supplying the British Army played an early and central role in the establishment of Juba in the early 1920s. Their number never exceeded 2,000, but because of their excellent relationship with the native Bari people and the large amount of resulting assistance they received, they built many structures in the downtown Juba Market area as well as in the area that the contemporary British soldiers called the Greek Quarter, which is today the small suburb of Hai Jalaba. Many of these structures are still standing today. Public…

Most-observed species

• Black Kite

  Milvus migrans (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  36
• Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

  Uraeginthus bengalus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  35
• Speckled Pigeon

  Columba guinea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  31
• Common Bulbul

  Pycnonotus barbatus (Desfontaines, 1789) · Aves
  30
• Pied Crow

  Corvus albus Statius Muller, 1776 · Aves
  23
• Black-headed Gonolek

  Laniarius erythrogaster (Cretzschmar, 1829) · Aves
  23
• Long-crested Eagle

  Lophaetus occipitalis (Daudin, 1800) · Aves
  21
• Speckled Mousebird

  Colius striatus J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  20

Most recent

• M 4.8 — 2023-10-31
  50 km E of Juba, South Sudan
• M 4.5 — 2022-02-25
  80 km NNW of Torit, South Sudan
• M 4.4 — 2021-06-26
  59 km E of Yei, South Sudan
• M 4.5 — 2020-10-25
  32 km NE of Juba, South Sudan
• M 3.9 — 2020-10-10
  61 km E of Juba, South Sudan
• M 4.4 — 2010-05-01
  72 km NNE of Juba, South Sudan