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 ...

Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with their spears, honoring their ...

The Dinka people of South Sudan have been pastoralists for centuries – their possessions are often not tangibles like buildings and pieces of furniture, but, handy valuables they can carry along ...

Photographer Pete Muller writes for LightBox about his dark, powerful portraits of the heavily armed, cattle keeping Dinka Rek, a sub-tribe of southern Sudan. I am deeply intrigued by the pastoralist ...

It’s easy to understand why an ongoing mass murder in the world’s poorest country is being ignored: Syria gassing its own citizens, prospects of a North Korea-U.S. clash and Chicago police manhandling ...

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," ...

At first glance the wooden benches in the front rows of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Bor, South Sudan, are simple and unremarkable. But the black letters painted on the side of each bench tell ...

This ideology has systematically undermined the promise of a democratic South Sudan. Political, military, and economic ...