Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

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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 ...

In all three states, offensives have been conducted by opposition commanders that defected to the South Sudan People's Defence ... to replace this force. The Nuer youth of Nasir, tired of being ...

Both Kiir and Machar are historical leaders of the rebel movement — the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement ... and Machar is from the Nuer, the second-largest. Their military rivalry began ...

and other towns with large South Sudanese populations gathered outside the Nebraskan State Capitol to raise awareness of what they describe as a genocide against the Nuer people, an ethnic ...