The famous and disappearing cattle keepers of Sudan are featured in a new book, Dinka. In our new coffee table series, we feature Angela Fish and Carol Beckwith’s photographs. Every morning hundreds ...

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," ...

The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is often seen as a power struggle between the “big men,” as the South Sudanese call their political and military leaders, namely President Salva Kiir and rebel ...

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 ...

Cattle raids and the cycle of revenge attacks have claimed thousands of lives in Lakes state since South Sudan's independence in 2011. Cattle are the main source of wealth and pride in Lakes clans, ...

April 17, 2017 (BOR) – A countless number of armed youth from Jongeli State during this Easter weekend have been deployed along the administrative border with Boma state demanding their tribal foes of ...

A young cattle keeper from the Dinka Rek sub-tribe poses for a portrait in a remote cattle camp in Wunlit County, southern Sudan. Young men like this man are often tasked with protecting cows from ...

Dec 8, 2005 (JUBA) — “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,” said Dinka ...

Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s body of work illustrates a different type of Africa, one that isn’t about the mainstream, safari-like viewpoint of the continent. Since the 1970s, the U.S.-born ...

In March 2022, violent clashes between farming communities and cattle herders broke out in Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan. It was the latest incident in months of cattle-related violence in the ...