South Sudan: Cold and Hot War - the Story of Contentious Animosity Between Nuer and the Dinka Tribes of South Sudan. 17 October 2012. South Sudan News Agency opinion By Stephen Pajok Kong ...

Not very perhaps, but in disturbingly large pockets we, like the Nuer and Dinka tribes, defend our actions as justified when the obvious is clearly to the contrary.

Last year more than 2,500 people were killed and 400,000 displaced, mostly after cattle raids between the tribes. In 1991 the Nuer massacred Dinka civilians in Bor.

In addition, the Nuer and the Dinka are currently poised to go to war against each other; the Dinka are the largest tribe in southern Sudan, and the Nuer, the second largest.

The United Nations estimates that nearly 1,000 people have been killed, and 45,000 displaced, in clashes between the Dinka and Nuer tribes since violence began Dec. 15 amid rumors of a power grab ...

30th July is the day dedicated to the South Sudanese martyr’s day. South Sudanese mark this day in different ways across the world. Between 1987-90, a group of young boys were moved from their ...

The SPLA split into rival factions—Garang’s Dinka-dominated core versus the SPLA-Nasir/United faction led by Commander Reik Machar and defectors from the Nuer tribe. The latter group is blamed for a ...

U.N. and African mediators announced on Tuesday that South Sudan's president Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have agreed to a ceasefire. A political agreement signaling a common desire to curb ...

When Kiir spoke, he urged forgiveness and reconciliation. This caught my attention: Kiir specifically asked members of the Dinka and Nuer tribes to forgive one another. Kiir is Dinka; Machar is Nuer.

Christian religious leaders have also written a joint letter. Describing themselves as "native members from the Dinka and Nuer communities", the Bishops and all the clergy, say "they do not identify ...

When fighting erupted between the Dinka and Nuer 1991, 2013, people like Marnath are caught in the middle because they have a connection on both sides of tribes.