Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...

South Sudan, the world's newest country ... A December statement by a Nuer group based in the US claiming to be behind the advancing army vowed to "wipe out the entire Murle tribe on the face ...

South Sudan Independence Movement/Army (SSIM/A): 1994-97: the above faction, reformed and renamed after the Nuer reconciliation ... the rebel group formed from most SSDF forces, based in Upper ...

mainly from the Nuer ethnic group who fled from the conflict in South Sudan that erupted in December 2013. The attacks were carried out only three days before South Sudan opposition leader, ...

Therefore, if the Naath/Nuer as a community has been hungry for ... two alive or dead and to trash to self-determination for South Sudan to garbage bin for good,” as Garang declared earlier ...

an ethnic Nuer. Mr Machar is now in exile. Numerous ceasefires have been broken and tens of thousands of people killed, but there is no UN arms embargo on South Sudan, as attempts to do so have ...

South Sudan, which was part of Sudan until 2021 ... split into Kiir’s supporters and opponents. The Nuer ethnic group rallied around their fellow tribesman Riek Machar, leader of the armed ...

“The Dinka, Nuer and Murle communities of Jonglei are losing the ability to keep cattle and do farming in that region the way they used to,” said Daniel Akech Thiong, a senior analyst with the ...