Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country’s President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka tribe, and his Vice ...

Sudan People’s Defense Forces/Democratic Front ... Paulino Matiep of the Sudan army, incorporating his formerly Anyanya II and SSDF Bul Nuer forces, supported by the Sudan government, based ...

South Sudan, the world's newest country ... He said that, after cattle raids in August 2011 left 600 people dead, the Nuer had agreed to halt retaliation if abducted women and children were ...

The rivalry between Dr Garang’s Dinka, and Dr Machar’s Nuer, which is the second largest tribe in South Sudan intensified. As the Dinka Bor were facilitated to go to school abroad, the Nuer ...

An opposition faction in South Sudan, led by Simon Gatwech Dual, signed a peace agreement with President Salva Kiir’s ...

Some people hoping to leave the country were turned back ... The rape victims were ethnic Nuer. The soldiers were loyal to South Sudan’s president, an ethnic Dinka; they had been fighting a faction of ...

One of the most prominent political and military opposition factions in South Sudan signed a peace agreement with the government of Salva Kiir Mayardit, under the auspices of the Director of the ...

Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them. The world’s youngest nation set a date for its first post-independence ...