Dinka people also practice polygamy. Marriage is a significant step within Dinka culture and serves as a cornerstone of societal strength and wealth. Unlike Western concepts of monogamy, ...

On Sunday, April 9, pro-government Mathiang Anyur Dinka mercenaries slaughtered as many as 50 people in the village of Wau, carrying out what residents call ethnic cleansing.

Because of this inherited characteristic, the tribe's average height is noticeably higher than other populations. Protein and ...

Yet there is no imminent salvation for the Dinka, the dominant tribe in southern Sudan. Civil war scattered the peoples of the White Nile long before the Darfur atrocities made international headlines ...

On December 16, 2013, SPLA soldiers from the Dinka tribe looted and burned Nuer houses in a neighborhood in Juba, South Sudan's capital. Photograph by Adriane Ohanesian.

In front of a packed room at South by Southwest this month, Emdin, a professor at Columbia Teachers College, explains how the Dinka tribe in South Sudan once suffered an outbreak of tetanus, which ...

The deal ended a five-year-civil war, which killed an estimated 400,000 people. South Sudan is polarized between the majority Dinka tribe, which Kiir hails from, and Machar’s Nuer ethnic group ...

Spokesman Aguer said many people enslaved as children had lost the Dinka language and many also had lost their parents. Some resisted CEAWC’s approaches to return to the south, but he put that ...

Bor Dinka coach Chol Jok said bringing young men of the two tribes together to wrestle can prevent violence. "When you are wrestling with somebody and you go and dance with him, eat with him, this ...