Tag: Dinka

Ten killed as Christian college attacked in South Sudan

May 17, 2018 South Sudan Dinka, Education, Mundri, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Yei

Residential accommodation at Emmanuel Christian Training Centre in Goli, South Sudan. (Photo: Open Doors International, 2009)

At least ten people, including five children, have been killed in an attack on a college in South Sudan teaching Theology, Education and Business, according to the Christian charity Open Doors International. Three guards and five students – one secondary and four primary school pupils – were among the victims . . . Read More

South Sudan’s transitional Government to aid crisis

June 16, 2014 South Sudan Bor, Dinka, East Africa, Juba, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, Sanctions, South Sudan, White Army

South Sudan has agreed to end fighting and pledged to set up a transitional government within 60 days and to resolve the conflict that’s caused a massive humanitarian crisis -resulting in thousands being killed and more than 1 million people fleeing their homes since December. In a rare meeting between . . . Read More

South Sudan’s fragile peace deal still threatens famine

May 13, 2014 South Sudan Darfur, Dinka, Juba, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, UN

Three years after gaining independence, the rebel movement that propelled South Sudan into statehood has degenerated into ethnic bloodletting verging on civil war. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has agreed to form an interim government with his political adversary, Riek Machar following pressure from the United Nations Secretary General Ban . . . Read More

Female church workers raped and killed in South Sudan

February 10, 2014 South Sudan Bor, Dinka, Episcopal Church of Sudan, Juba, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, South Sudan, White Army

Bor has been the flashpoint of the conflict, with the city changing hands between the government and opposition forces several times. Most of the civilian population has been displaced.Dominika Arseniuk, Polish Humanitarian Action / Flickr / Creative Commons Scores of female church workers were massacred last month as they . . . Read More

Disputed area of Abyei votes to join South Sudan

November 4, 2013 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Blue Nile, Darfur, Dinka, Kadugli, Khartoum, South Kordofan, South Sudan

Agok town in the disputed Abyei area.ENOUGH Project / Flickr / Creative Commons Sudan, already facing regional insurgencies and austerity riots, is on the brink of more violence along its border with South Sudan. Human rights groups say that the fate of Abyei, an area half the size of . . . Read More

Abyei Chief killed in UN ambush

May 10, 2013 Abyei, Dinka, South Sudan, Sudan, UN

The Paramount Chief of the nine Ngok Dinka tribes around the still-disputed Abyei region (between Sudan and South Sudan) was killed in an ambush of the UN convoy in which he was returning from peace talks about the future of the region on May 4. A UN peacekeeper was also . . . Read More

Sudan border dispute brings destitution to thousands

November 19, 2012 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Dinka, Episcopal Church of Sudan, IDPs, Khartoum, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan, Trauma

As politicians wrangle ahead of an early December deadline over the still-disputed status of the oil-rich region of Abyei, straddling the border of Sudan and South Sudan, local church leaders appeal for help in the face of a potential humanitarian crisis. Both governments have been asked to approve an African . . . Read More

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