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    The Nuer people are a Nilotic ethnic group concentrated in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. They also live in the Ethiopian region of Gambella...
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  • The Nuer White Army, sometimes decapitalised as the "white army", is a semi-official name for a militant organisation formed by the Nuer people of central...
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  • The Nuer language (Thok Naath) ("people's language") is a Nilotic language of the Western Nilotic group. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan...
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  • Nuer may refer to: Nuer people Nuer language or Thok Nath This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nuer. If an internal link led...
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  • The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People is an ethnographical study by the British anthropologist...
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  • The Dinka and Nuer are the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Conflict over pastures and cattle raids has been happening between these two ethnic...
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  • The Nuer massacre, which occurred from December 15 to December 18, 2013, was a well-organized, intentional mass killing perpetrated against thousands of...
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    Nuerland (redirect from Nuer land)
    True Savannah) is the indigenous homeland and traditional territory of the Nuer people, situated largely within South Sudan between the latitudes of 7° and...
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  • the population and predominate in government. The second largest are the Nuers. Conflict is often aggravated among nomadic groups over the issue of cattle...
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    Conflict over pastures and cattle raids has been happening between Dinka and Nuer as they battled for grazing land. The Dinka's religions, beliefs, and lifestyle...
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  • 8°10′N 33°34′E / 8.167°N 33.567°E / 8.167; 33.567 Nuer Zone Amharic (ኑዌር ዞን) Thok Naath (Gua̱th Ciɛŋkä naath), The Zone is founded in Gambela Region...
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  • language family. Western Nilotic is divided into two main clusters: Dinka–Nuer and Luo. The Luo Languages are languages spoken by the Luo peoples. They...
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    encountered. The Nilotic people of South Sudan—the Dinka, Anyuak, Bari, Acholi, Nuer, Shilluk, Kaligi (Arabic Feroghe), and others—first entered South Sudan sometime...
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  • The Jikany Nuer are a section of the Nuer people who mainly live in the eastern part of Upper Nile state in South Sudan, particularly around Nasir in Nasir...
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    violent clashes broke out in 1993 between Jikany Nuer and Lou Nuer in Upper Nile, in 2009–2012 between Lou Nuer and Murle in Jonglei and in 2013–2014 between...
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    the Dinka and Nuer, which were often violent. Kiir's Dinka ethnic group has been accused of attacking other ethnic groups and Machar's Nuer ethnic group...
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  • result, his trilogy of works on the Nuer (The Nuer (1940), Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer (1951), and Nuer Religion (1956)) and the volume he coedited...
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  • Karamojong people also known as the Karamojong or Karimojong, Datooga, Dinka, Nuer, Atwot, Lotuko, and the Maa-speaking peoples. The Nilotes constitute the...
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    Riek Machar (category Nuer people)
    served as the First Vice President of South Sudan since 2020. A member of the Nuer ethnic group, Machar earned degrees in engineering from Khartoum University...
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  • Daughter of the Nile (Chinese: 尼羅河女兒) is a 1987 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. Lin Hsiao-yang (Lin Yang), tries to keep her family together...
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  • whose story is based in 2008, a young village girl that was a part of the Nuer tribe. Park used this book as a platform to support Dut's organization, Water...
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    with 525,000 inhabitants. It is home to a diverse population, including the Nuer, Anuak, and other indigenous groups. The region's economy is largely based...
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  • two was mostly along ethnic lines, with the SPLM-IO representing the same Nuer ethnic group as leader Riek Machar. In 2018, a South Sudanese critical writer...
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  • This is a list of African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions. It also covers spirits as well as deities found within...
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  • The disarmament of the Lou Nuer was a forcible disarmament campaign undertaken by the SPLA in Southern Sudan in December 2005. While other groups had been...
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    Sir Abu Nu'ayr (redirect from Sir Abu Nuer)
    Sir Abu Nuʽayr (Arabic: صِيْر أَبُو نُعَيْر, romanized: Ṣīr Abū Nuʽayr), also known as Sir Bu Nuʽayr (Arabic: صِيْر بُو نُعَيْر, romanized: Ṣīr Bū Nuʿayr)...
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    have also been referred as Beir by the Dinka and as Jebe by the Luo and Nuer, among others. The Murle speak the Murle language, which is part of the Surmic...
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    Ngundeng Pyramid (category Nuer people)
    known as Pyramid of Dengkur, was a large mound shrine constructed by the Nuer people's prophet Ngundeng Bong (died 1906) at the end of the nineteenth century...
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  • cattle-herding pastoralists. Nuer women do not marry deceased men only to continue the man's bloodline. In accordance with Nuer tradition, any wealth owned...
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  • may also refer to: Saudi Arabian National Guard Nuer White Army, a semi-organised militancy of Nuer youths in South Sudan in east-central Africa after...
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