But in December 2013, the violence returned. Pitted against each other were South Sudan's two predominant and most populous tribes, the Dinka and Nuer. Longtime rivals who had battled over land ...

Three years ago, a grass-roots effort led to a peace agreement between the two main tribes in the south, the Dinka and the Nuer, which had been fighting each other. The peace between them has held ...

I want to take you back to the genesis of contentious animosity between the two Cousins, the Nuer and Dinka. I have been thinking why there is an enormous hatred between these tribes; I have seen ...

The Bari ethnic group I noted is the fourth largest tribe in South Sudan after the Dinka, the Nuer and the Azande. The Azande and the Bari lead a composition of different ethnic groups ...

THE Anglican Bishop of Bor, Nathaniel Garang, sits under the little shade afforded by a thorn tree. His dusty compound has a few mud and straw huts, some plastic chairs, and goats reaching up to ...

I am reminded of a Newsweek story authored by Andy Hunt and published in 2007 that focused on the customs of the Nuer and the Dinka tribes of southern Sudan. Within these cattle-herding societies ...

They’re key to survival among many tribes, including two of the country’s largest ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Nuer — Thong’s tribe — as well as the much smaller Murle. In recent ...

Most of the SPLA are from the Dinka tribe, while members of Machar’s SPLM-IO forces are largely Nuer. Added to the mix here in Malakal are the Skilluk, who claim the city as their historic home.

Eye Radio has journalists from all South Sudanese tribes, including the Dinka and Nuer, who are at the heart of the conflict. Station manager Steve Omiri says when the conflict erupted ...

As South Sudan, the world's newest country, teeters on the brink of civil war, members of the two feuding tribes — the Nuer and the Dinka — living in Minnesota are working to ensure that the ...

While in Ethiopia, Marnath and many of his Nuer boys were mixed with other tribes of South Sudan. Marnath was put together with a group of Dinka boys. Marnath made new friends, and he eventually ...