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The Lango community are the Nilot and are both agriculturists
and nomadic. They are bordering Uganda from Northeast. These
people are found along the mountains of Bira, Isoke, Tseretenya,
Imotong, Lomohidang, Gilo and Katire, generally, they are mountainous
with sub-tribes of Lokwa, Dongotono, Ketebo, Logir, Lorwama
and Imotong. Politically, they belong to Torit County-Eastern
Equatoria in Equatoria Region, Southern Sudan. Lango populations
are about 70,000 and are bordering tribes like the Lotukos,
Acholis, Buyas and the Didinga within the Sudan and Karimojong
and Acholis in Uganda. It is one third (1/3) of Torit County.
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Lango in full Logir traditional dance in Ikotos |
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There are couples of environmental problems that the Lango community
experiences currently. Deforestation is one of them, which have
been cause by cutting down trees for fuel. Firewood has been
a big problem couple with the influx of other tribes as a result
of internal displacement from the current civil war. Today Lango
headquarters, Ikotos have been flooded and it is now the headquarters
of Torit County. Clearing of more land for human settlement
and grazing land for the community animals as a contributor.
Drought has hit Langoland for the past years that resulted to
bad harvest.
The Lango people faced not environmental factors but also
economics problems. Our people encountered all shorts of macroeconomic
variables. Since there is war, our people face more problems
than expected. Our folk's still use stones for grinding their
grains, they don't know what money is, some even never climb
a truck. Langos doesn't know what employment or allocation
of national resources is. We have many minerals in the mountain
but we don't know exactly what they are. The economic activities
like transaction is zero and things like social services and
infrastructure are non-existence. There is no any tarmac road
in the Langoland since independence. The Langos has been marginalized
and kept out of the world by the Islamic regime. The entire
community does not have a clinic or a Hospital.
The Lango area is a very large and rich agricultural land
East of Torit County. It extends from Katire, Imotong Mountains,
to Tseretenya hills and from Bira Mountains to Karenga. The
area goes to Kidepo Valley National Park in Uganda across
to the border with the Didinga and the Buya. Crossing Kidepo
Valley at the point known as Haji Akara (Place of Akara) straight
to Lobira hills and through Burung, Oguluyore bordering Kiyala
Payam at Loguruny valley, and through the wilderness to Hilleu
and joins Katire again.
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