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The low-lying country around Ler is subject to flooding in the later part of the rainy season, so crops must be planted early. Alternative sources of food if the floods arrive too soon include hunting, fishing and collection of edible wild plants. A woman selling milk at the Leer town market in 2010
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was running a large hospital in Leer with about 150 national staff, eight expatriate staff, and three regional staff. The hospital has an outpatient department, a medical and surgical inpatient department, an operating theatre, a maternity and antenatal care unit, a therapeutic feeding center, a
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had obtained ammunition from their former rivals the SPLA and that month went on the offensive north to Leer, and then on to Duar, Koch, Boaw, and
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exploded, destroying two vehicles, killing three people and seriously injured others. The border with Sudan to the north was blocked, causing shortages of supplies, and there were rumors that militias were moving south through the county.
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Naath FM, the only community radio station in Leer County, was officially launched in
January 2009 although it had already been broadcasting for a year. "Naath" means "citizen" in the language of the local
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fly in to support the work of humanitarian workers and to develop the
Christian church which is growing rapidly. Leer County has been described as "a sprawling, flat, marshland littered with oil fields".
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regained control of Block 5A. Unlike other oilfields, there was no forcible displacement of the civilian population until about 1998, when a new consortium led by the
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Jal's GUA Africa charity will build five new classrooms for the primary school. In phase 2 of the project, GUA hopes to build Leer's first ever secondary school.
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was born in Leer in the early 1980s, taken from his family to serve as a boy soldier and later helped to move out of the country to
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tuberculosis program and a laboratory. The hospital was ransacked and destroyed in 2014, after violence forced its evacuation.
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