Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ethnic group supported ... From the outbreak of conflict, armed groups targeted civilians along ethnic lines ...

South Sudan is embroiled in an ethnic based conflict pitting Salva Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group against Machar’s Nuer community although the two rival leaders downplay the ethnic lines as ...

For starters, the kinship ties between Dinka and Nuer are very elaborate ... have the legitimacy nor the objectivity to mediate in a conflict involving a head of state and a “rebel”.

with the Dinka and the Nuer communities effectively at war. "South Sudanese children's lives are being devastated by conflict, with children once again going to war instead of to school," Bekele said.

About a third of South Sudan's population has been displaced by the conflict ... an ethnic Dinka, and his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer. Mr Machar is now in exile. Numerous ceasefires ...