The Sudanese army is tapping into nationalist and xenophobic sentiments to gain domestic support and distract attention from ...

The definition and boundaries of ethnic groups depend on how people perceive themselves and others.The Dinka and the Nuer, the largest groups in southern Sudan, call themselves, Jieng and Naath tribes ...

Winter knew that the Sudanese civil war was not simply a battle between Islam and Christianity—southern Sudan is in many places a patchwork of animist tribes who know nothing of Christianity.

Before the war caused institutions to collapse in southern Sudan, the Dinka were not only farmers and herders, but also law court judges and high public officials and physicians. Today various Dinka ...

This practice is conducted almost entirely by government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribe in western Sudan, and it is directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern ...

The presidents of Sudan (Bashir) and South Sudan (Kiir) met for two days of meetings on the 1 st and agreed to settle their border dispute and begin reopening the ten closed border crossings and ...

“South Sudan has 64 tribes and the team is made up of people from different regions, backgrounds and clans,” Wuoi told BBC Sport Africa. “As a South Sudanese, seeing people play at that ...