The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

The two men, now in their early 70s ... The same year, Machar was blamed for an ethnic massacre of Dinka people in Bor carried out by Nuer fighters loyal to him. Machar was seen by some former ...

The two men, now in their early 70s ... The same year, Machar was blamed for an ethnic massacre of Dinka people in Bor carried out by Nuer fighters loyal to him. Machar was seen by some former rebel ...

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.

the Dinka, was sent to quell a mutiny of soldiers who did not want to be rotated to the north. He joined it instead. Under the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army/Movement they waged a destructive ...

During Sudan’s second north-south civil war from 1983 to 2005, before South Sudan became independent, Khartoum sought to ...

South Sudan is on the brink of reigniting the disastrous five-year civil war that left hundreds of thousands dead before it ended with a peace deal in 2018. The war was fought between forces loyal to ...

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 ...

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 ...