Payam (administrative unit)
Payam is a mid-level sub-county administrative unit in South Sudan . Payams must have at least 25,000 residents. They are further divided into a variable number of bomas . In 2017 there were 540 payams and 2500 bomas in South Sudan .
The administrative unit was divided by the Armed Forces of South Sudan (SPLM / A) and ratified by the National Convention of New Sudan . The comparable unit in neighboring Kenya and Uganda is the sub-county.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tony Allan: Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom 2012: 451. ISBN 1857436695 (Martin Keulertz; Suvi Sojamo; Jeroen Warner).
- ^ A b Elke Grawert: After the comprehensive peace agreement in Sudan . James Currey, Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] 2010, ISBN 1847010229 , p. 104.
- ↑ Yongo-Bure, Benaiah. Economic Development of Southern Sudan . Lanham, Md. a.]: Univ. Press of America 2007: 197-198