In South Sudan, generals and politicians have siphoned off the country’s oil wealth (98 percent of state revenue in 2013 ...

a Nuer. Their war, fought largely along ethnic lines, has turned the northern part of the country into a wasteland. At least 50,000 people have been killed, according to the U.N., nearly 4 million ...

The southern pro-government groups belonged to Riek Machar and Paulino Matiep,both ethnic Nuer, a Nilotic people related to the Dinka. Riek Machar, leader of a breakaway SPLA faction, signed a ...

[25] In 1998 the federal government forced the Anuak-dominated GPLM to merge with the mainly Nuer Gambella Peoples Democratic Unity Party (GPDUP) into the Gambella People’s Democratic Front (GPDF).

Caught between hostile government troops and a rebel army that intimidates as much as it protects, things aren't looking good for the Nuer people of South Sudan. NGOs have been attacked, causing them ...

He is a cultural anthropologist whose work centers on Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya and Nuer (Sudanese) refugees in Minnesota ... Holtzman's most recent book examines what the Samburu people ...

A Morse code of dots and dashes crossed the father's face and forehead, signaling to any potential cattle raiders—the Dinka, the Nuer—that ... language—of the people there.

Due to her inexperience and gender, she is frowned upon. Many people want her place as leader, and they are willing to do everything they can to take it. Liw's life is in constant danger ...

The ongoing conflict between rival militaries in Sudan has stalled progress towards the determination of the final status of the disputed oil-rich Abyei region which straddles the Sudan-South Sudan ...