Panyijar County is an administrative division of Unity State in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan.

[2] Panyijar County was "once a thriving agricultural area before decades of war forced inhabitants to migrate elsewhere.

"[3] "The United Nations says that up to 40,000 people are displaced to islands in the Bahr el Jebel River and surrounding wetlands in Unity State’s Panyijar County.

The county was also attacked by government Forces and backed cattle raiders from neighboring Lakes State.

One technical assessment expert for Action Against Hunger and the South Sudan Nutrition Information Working Group, reporting that “In my entire career, I have never seen such an alarmingly high prevalence of Global Acute Malnutrition anywhere ...