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The county is divided into the payams of
Kimatong, Lotukei, Komiri (Chukudum), Loudo, Lauro, Ngarich and Nagishot. The Buya people are about 20-30% of the population and the Didinga people are estimated 70-80% of the total. 2005 population estimates ranged between 128,385 and 155,847, with the lower
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Didinga peoples are agro-pastoralists. The main crops are sorghum, maize, bulrush millet, potatoes, beans and sesame. There is potential, at least among the Didinga in the south, for the country to produce a surplus of crops. Wild foods are found in most areas, particularly in the
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The Buya mainly measure their wealth in cattle, while the
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and 2,528 returnees were living in the county. These people had few means for survival, and suffered chronic malnutrition. They had little knowledge of farming, including planting, weeding, water control, harvesting and sales of their crop. Failures of rainfall in 2009 had aggravated the problem.
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diocese were ambushed at
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in the west. The highlands have two rainy seasons, March–September and
October–February, making agriculture productive and often producing surplus crops for sale. The lowlands have a single long planting season from March to September, and often experience food shortages.
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Payam were not able to vote because they were afraid to cross the territories of other communities after an attack on 24 December 2010 in which five people were killed and three injured. In
February 2011 two Catholic priests from the
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number considered more plausible. The Buya occupy most of the lowlands of the
Kimatong and Ngarich payams, in the northern half of the county, and the Didinga occupy the remaining southern payams of the county.
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