[1][2] During the 2011–2012 South Sudan tribal clashes some six to eight thousand "armed raiders" entered the county in late December 2011, ransacking and burning.

Three Médecins Sans Frontières clinics, the only source of formal healthcare in Jonglei state, were looted and torched.

[3] International food security experts said in December 2020 that Pibor County was likely in a famine.

The Famine Review Committee report released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said at least 20% of households were facing extreme food gaps and at least 30% of children were acutely malnourished.

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