The rebel group's leader, John Garang, was born into the Dinka tribe, the largest ethnic ... Today, the SPLA controls much of the southern third of Sudan, plus pockets in the country's central ...

Winter knew that the Sudanese civil war was not simply a battle between Islam and Christianity—southern Sudan is in many places a patchwork of animist tribes who know nothing of Christianity.

This practice is conducted almost entirely by government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribe in western Sudan, and it is directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern ...

Of course, the armed civilians from the subject tribes intervened during ... self-claimed “United Secular/New Sudan,” vision to self-determination for South Sudan. Therefore, this demonstrated ...

South Sudanese authorities imposed a countrywide dusk-to-dawn curfew after a night of violence during which shops were looted in the capital.

it used militias in southern Sudan to remove any obstacles to oil drilling. Musa Hilal, sheikh of the Um Jalloul tribe, has a history of instigating fights against the Fur; now the U.S. State ...

South Sudan broke away from Sudan to form an independent country in 2011 after a long-running civil war, but more recently, ...

Egypt has deployed helicopters and snipers against fuel smugglers and people traffickers - but is turning a blind eye to gold ...

The conflict in Sudan is taking an “even more dangerous turn for civilians”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker ...