Torit is the capital of Imatong district in East Equatoria State in the southern region of Sudan. Torit district was formed in 1934 by the merging of the districts of Teretenya and Opari. Opari was the district administrative headquarters' for the regions inhabited by the ethnic Madi and Acholi people. It was heavily impacted by the violence of the Second Sudanese Civil War and conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army. Much of its former population is internally displaced.