This article, the first in a series aimed at raising awareness of our shared ancestry and identity, seeks to ignite a ...

deeper than a personality conflict between these two politicians? WARNER: President Kiir is of the Dinka ethnicity, and Machar is of the Nuer ethnicity. And a lot of the violence has fallen ...

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba publicly admitted his weariness regarding the conflict with the Nuer ... when civil war broke out between the Nuer and Dinka tribes in December 2013.

This conflict can be traced back to historical tensions between the Nuer and Dinka communities, worsened by the 1991 split of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a political party.

Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ethnic group supported ... From the outbreak of conflict, armed groups targeted civilians along ethnic lines ...

particularly between the Dinka, the largest ethnic group, and the Nuer, the second-largest. Historically the region has not been able to rely on strong, central governance, and conflict has been a ...

Nuer presidential guards then began fighting their Dinka counterparts inside the military barrack situated at the Custom Jebel market area 3Km from Juba University. The Nuer forces that are allied ...

This conflict can be traced back to historical tensions between the Nuer and Dinka communities, worsened by the 1991 split of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a political party.

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens ... South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, the second-largest in ...

But analysts warn that there are more political and social undercurrents to what has degenerated into a Dinka-Nuer conflict. “It is foolhardy to think that the conflict began from Kiir’s State ...

The communities who live in the Sudd, including the Dinka, Nuer, Anyuak ... The protracted state of conflict in the country has further reduced their ability to cope. Community elders who spoke ...