They are the tallest people in the world. Men average, yes average, 6-foot-1. Members of the Dinka Tribe in South Sudan, who average 5-foot-11, are close rivals. Many in their tribe reach 7 feet tall.

So popular is the competition among the Dinka tribe that it has increasingly become the ambition of many young men to grow fat and compete. Each year, the young men of the tribe engage in an ...

This practice is conducted almost entirely by government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribe in western Sudan, and it is directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern ...

Besides, Dr Garang was constantly accused of favoring his Dinka tribe, especially the Dinka Bor sub-tribe to which he belonged. Thus, most of the scholarships that he managed to secure from ...

Gen Paul Nang, ordered all the herders from Jonglei, currently in Eastern Equatoria, to return to their home area ...

Unidentified attackers raided cattle camps in a southeastern area of South Sudan last week, killing at least 35 people and wounding 46, a community leader said. Cattle raiding linked to competition ...