In Dinka Bor tradition, long ebony shafts serve as walking sticks for the elderly, as scepters for newly married women and as weapons for initiates into manhood. Wooden spears are vital to Dinka ...

January 22, 2015 (MABOR) – Hundreds of women took to the streets in Jongeli state capital Bor, calling on the governor to resign, accusing him of taking sides during the country’s latest conflict. The ...

Hawa Aganas, a Civil Affairs Officer serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, lets slip an audible sigh and displays a smile which seems both wary and weary as she comments on the ...

October 7, 2005 — Hard fought, hard won; however, sad about the outcome. The war has dragged my people in every thorny trail possible in Sudan. The unease began with firing of bullets in 1983 that ...

JUBA, South Sudan, December 8 (UNHCR) - "I am here now because we have been attacked many times by other tribes. They stole our cattle, they stole our clothes - they even stole our kitchen utensils," ...

..burning homes, villages, community structures, and grain, and killing women and children. These types of abuses have been the proximate cause of several famines in recent years. Recent experience in ...