JUBA, South Sudan, December 8 (UNHCR) - "I am here now because we have been attacked many times by other tribes. They stole our cattle, they stole our clothes - they even stole our kitchen utensils," ...

BELIEL CAMP, Sudan -- Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with ...

By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Attacks by rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group in an area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 32 people over the weekend, a ...

South Sudan comprises a mélange of ethnic and tribal identities including the majority Dinka tribe — to which Kiir belongs — and Machar’s Nuer tribe, the second most populous.

Nevertheless, when the Dinka South Sudan President Salva Kiir named a constitutional review committee in February, 15 of the 24 members came from his tribe. Widespread official corruption and land ...

Under this plan, John Garang, an impressive member of the Dinka tribe from South Sudan, would become Sudan’s first vice president, joining Ali Osman Taha, a former leader in the National Islamic ...

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the south's ruling party, has said the NCP is demanding a "ransom" for the Abyei referendum from Washington including concessions such as the lifting ...

Luol Deng was born in Sudan, in the territory that is now South Sudan, into the Dinka tribe. His father moved the family to Egypt to escape the Second Sudanese Civil War when Luol was in grade school.

JAN. 2, 2010 - Nuer tribesmen attack Dinka cattle herders in Tonj East, a remote part of oil-producing south Sudan, and seize about 5,000 animals. At least 139 people are killed 54 wounded, a ...

In an apparent attempt to boost his stature as a leader of the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe after the Dinka, Machar has kept in his possession a ceremonial stick once carried by a ...