South Sudan stands out. On July 9, 2011, South Sudan officially seceded from Sudan, becoming the world’s newest nation.

For the rural people of South Sudan, cattle are at the center of their culture. They use them as currency ... Last December, he helped lead a vigilante force of an estimated 7,000 Loh Nuer tribesmen ...

Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious ... Ruratotoye blames a masculine culture rooted in violence that has historically devalued women.

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 ...

As Sudan’s civil war worsens, looters are targeting the National Museum and other museums, putting priceless artefacts across ...

Those of South Sudan today fall into two groups: the Western and Eastern Nilotes. By far the most numerically powerful are the Western Nilotes, whose linguistic category includes the Dinka, Shilluk, ...

Protracted flooding has engulfed the country’s Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving ...

Over the course of the decades’ long civil war, southerners—mostly Christian and animist—fought against rule by the north and the imposition of Arabic language and culture ... of South Sudan's ...

spokesman for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. The violence occurred when members of the Murle tribe attacked villages of the Lou Nuer, Siddique said. Though the violence had largely ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has agreed with the de facto leader of Sudan, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, that vital oil exports from the landlocked country could resume through its northern ...

The South Sudan men's basketball team debuted on the ... There are also over 60 indigenous languages spoken, including Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari and Zande.

NAIROBI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - South Sudan and Sudan have made progress towards restarting the pumping of South Sudan's crude oil through a pipeline running to a port in its neighbour, South Sudan's ...