Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country’s President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka tribe, and his Vice ...

Sudan People’s Defense Forces/Democratic Front ... Paulino Matiep of the Sudan army, incorporating his formerly Anyanya II and SSDF Bul Nuer forces, supported by the Sudan government, based ...

South Sudan, the world's newest country ... He said that, after cattle raids in August 2011 left 600 people dead, the Nuer had agreed to halt retaliation if abducted women and children were ...

Nasir’s Role in South Sudan’s Conflicts Nasir, a town on the Sobat River in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state near the Ethiopian ...

Some people hoping to leave the country were turned back ... The rape victims were ethnic Nuer. The soldiers were loyal to South Sudan’s president, an ethnic Dinka; they had been fighting a faction of ...

A copy was also sent to the President of the republic of South Sudan, Head of United Nations ... The document accused Nuer ethnic tribe persons and their politicians: “this time around it ...

The agreement focuses on implementing security arrangements, integrating the opposition faction’s forces into the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF ... particularly the Al-Nuer region, given ...

an ethnic Nuer. Mr Machar is now in exile. Numerous ceasefires have been broken and tens of thousands of people killed, but there is no UN arms embargo on South Sudan, as attempts to do so have ...

He praised the two parties for responding to the call for peace and signing the agreement, noting that signing the agreement will open the door to security stability in all border areas between the ...