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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. The Nuer speak the Nuer language, which belongs to the Nilotic language family. They are the second-largest ethnic group in South Sudan and the largest ethnic group in Gambella, Ethiopia. [4]
Nuerland (Thok Naath: Ro̱l Naath, Arabic:بلد النوير, Nickname: the True Savannah) is the indigenous homeland and traditional territory of the Nuer people, [1] [2] situated largely within South Sudan between the latitudes of 7° and 10° north and longitudes of 29° and 32° east.
Guek Ngundeng was believed to have been born in 1890 in Wech Deng village, Nyirol County of Lou Nuer territory today part of Jonglei State, South Sudan.His father Ngundeng Bong, a Nuer prophet, was from Lou Nuer and his mother Nyaduong Duoth hailed from Eastern Jikany Nuer. [1]
South Sudan is populated by about 64 ethnic groups. The Dinka are the largest ethnic group recorded, followed by the Nuer as the second largest tribe in South Sudan, the Shilluk follows as the third in number. it's disputed that Bari is 4th according to their territory which is Juba county. Zande, also known as Azande, are the fifth largest ...
Deng Laka was born to a Dinka refugee family living among the Gaawar Nuer along the Zeraf Valley in what is now part of Jonglei state, South Sudan, in the mid-nineteenth century. His mother and sisters were captured and sold into slavery by Nuaar Mer, a powerful man from the Radh clan of Gaawar, who was a contact point for the Arab merchants ...
South Sudan's modern history is closely tied to that of Sudan. These ties began in the 19th century with the southward expansion of the Ottoman Khedivate of Egypt and the establishment of Turco-Egyptian Sudan with the land that makes up modern South Sudan remaining a part of Sudan through the Mahdist State , Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the ...
During the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005), between 1993 and 2004 the Lou Nuer and Jikany Nuer of Nasir County were in violent conflict. After that time, relations between the two groups were calmer until 2009, when they deteriorated sharply. [1] Gordon Kong Chuol belongs to the Jikany Nuer and
The total death toll from the second civil war in South Sudan is estimated at more than two million, most of them South Sudanese civilians. Four million South Sudanese were displaced and have been gradually returning since the end of the war. [20] Supplying the returnees is a problem, as South Sudan's agriculture was also severely affected by ...