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 an ethnic Nuer militant organization in central and eastern...
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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 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: 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 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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Western Nilotic languages (redirect from Dinka-Nuer languages)
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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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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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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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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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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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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8°10′N 33°34′E / 8.167°N 33.567°E / 8.167; 33.567 The Nuer Zone Amharic (ኑዌር ዞን) Thok Naath (Gua̱th Ciɛŋkä naath), is a zone in the Gambela Region of...
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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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Sudan. The group's creation was announced in November 1999 by people of the Nuer ethnicity who were in both the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA)...
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Conflict over pastures and cattle raids has been happening between Dinka and Nuer as they battled for grazing land. Dinka migration from Gezira & Alodia The...
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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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of the Congo, and Tanzania. The Nilotic peoples consist of the Dinka, the Nuer, the Shilluk, the Luo peoples, the Alur, the Anuak, the Ateker peoples, the...
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Daughter of the Nile (redirect from Niluohe nuer)
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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1929) was a Nuer people's prophet and spiritual leader proclaimed seizure by the spirit of Deng(sky God) divinity and a son of the Nuer people's prophet...
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Gambela conflict (category Nuer)
armed groups of the indigenous Anuak people with civilians of the indigenous Nuer people, and the Ethiopian military. Following resettlement policies implemented...
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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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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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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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It is home to a diverse population, including the Anuak the indigenous, Nuer, and other indigenous groups called Majang Komo and Opo. The region's economy...
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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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Ghost marriage in South Sudan (section Nuer people)
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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roles, donning typically female attire and occasionally having sex with men. Nuer researcher Brian MacDermot initially believed same-sex relations didn't exist...
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