The nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms of Abyei Special Administrative Area (ASAA) on Thursday held a one-day event in Abyei Town to ...

The relief targets about 22,000 people who fled to Magwi town in late January following deadly cattle-related clashes. At ...

Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a ...

These have been fuelled by ethnic divisions – Kiir is Dinka, while Machar is Nuer ... the 73-year-old devout Roman Catholic was the son of a cattle herder and the eighth of nine children.

Tensions between Kiir's Dinka people, the country's largest ethnic ... Born in 1951 to a family of cattle herders, Kiir joined the southern rebellion against the Sudanese government in the 1960s ...

There he decided to leave service and begin his own business: That business was the capture of men who could be sold for ivory or cash, used to extract grain and cattle, or sold to ... the Légion ...

(Tina Saitone and Ken Tate / UC Davis) Motion-activated field cameras, GPS collars, wolf scat analysis and cattle tail hair samples are helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed new ...