South Sudan Independence Movement/Army (SSIM/A): 1994-97: the above faction, reformed and renamed after the Nuer reconciliation meeting at Akobo in 1994, based variously in Waat and Ayod ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nuer ethnic group has never been hungry for ... “United Secular/New Sudan,” vision to self-determination for South Sudan. Therefore, this demonstrated that, the Nuer as a community has ...

SOUTH SUDAN: Long-horned cattle wade through flooded ... ruining farmland and killing livestock. "The Dinka, Nuer and Murle communities of Jonglei are losing the ability to keep cattle and do ...

South Sudan, the world's newest country ... recently escalated to unknown proportions when over 6,000 armed Lou Nuer youths marched on Pibor to attack the Murle. Ismiah Shan and her eight children ...

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 ...

Armed militants of South Sudan’s Murle tribe on Friday crossed the border into Ethiopia and raided 13 villages belonging to the Nuer and Anyuak ethnic groups of the Gambella Regional State ...

FRESH clashes have erupted in South Sudan despite ongoing peace talks between ... President Kiir comes from the Dinka community and Machar from the Nuer. The BBC reports that both sides stand ...

“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 ...