August 8, 2014 (JUBA) – The representative of the South Sudanese rebels to the United Nations in New York, Miyong Kuon, has accused the Dinka ethnic group of personalizing president Salva Kiir ...

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...

The rebel group's leader, John Garang, was born into the Dinka tribe, the largest ethnic group in Sudan, and raised by a Christian family. An insurgent during an earlier civil war, Garang was ...

Throughout the multifaceted conflict, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka ethnic group, has been using his army to wage a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against ...

He also said "soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group have been strategically deployed and posted in non-Dinka areas to support the policy of land occupation." Swaka said the military raped and ...

First Vice President Riek Machar has officially received the referendum report from a team from Abyei Area Administration.

They are denied their ethnic heritage, language ... that they are doing a favor for the captives; they regard the Dinka culture as inferior and believe that the abductees are fortunate to have ...

The Nuer ethnic group rallied around their fellow tribesman Riek Machar, leader of the armed opposition, while government troops were mostly made up of Dinka people, the ethnic group that Kiir ...

"We must forgive one another and reconcile," said Mr Kiir. "I also appeal to the people of Dinka and Nuer (rival ethnic groups) to forgive one another." Also present at the ceremony was the leader ...