The country slid into civil war two years later when forces loyal to the president, an ethnic Dinka, battled those loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer. More than 400,000 people were killed.

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This conflict can be traced back to historical tensions between the Nuer and Dinka communities, worsened by the 1991 split of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a political party. After ...

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The conflict, rooted in political and ethnic tensions which were deliberately inflamed by Omar al-Bashir's Sudanese government's divide-and-conquer strategy to split the Nuer and Dinka tribes prior to ...

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The head of SSPDF’s Division 5, Gil Mangok, is a Malual Dinka from Northern Bahr el Ghazal, and the government’s forces are thought of as an occupying Dinka army by the civilians of Wau ...

In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and regional conflicts intertwine, rendering these ...

Tensions between Kiir's Dinka people, the country's largest ethnic group, and Machar's Nuer community have lingered, with both men accused of putting tribal interests ahead of national priorities.

South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group, the second-largest in the country. Clashes this month in the town of Nasir ...