Budi County is an administrative area of Eastern Equatoria state in South Sudan, with headquarters in Chukudum.

Coincidentally, Dr. John Garang De Mabior the leader and founder of SPLM, untimely died in helicopter crash in Budi county in 2005.

[2] The county is divided into the payams of Kimatong, Lotukei, Komiri (Chukudum), Loudo, Lauro, Ngarich and Nagishot.

With the Didinga-Toposa peace agreement of February 2003 the Kapoeta-Lauro road was opened and it became possible for aid workers to reach the Lauro payam for the first time.

With both groups, livestock plays a central role in people's lives, and are important during initiation and marriage rites where they are slaughtered for food or exchanged as formal gifts.

During the civil war, insecurity was caused by fighting between the SPLA and the rebel forces of Commander Peter Lorot, cattle rustling and attacks from militia groups.

The "Chukudom Crisis" was resolved in August 2002 during a Peace Conference organized by the New Sudan Council of Churches.

The Lord's Resistance Army from Uganda, led by Joseph Kony, was among the armed groups that added to the general insecurity.

[2] A 2005 report noted tension between the Didinga and the SPLA, with villagers afraid of the soldiers and young women hiding in the hills to avoid rape.