Ethnic violence in South Sudan

Ethnic violence in South Sudan has a long history among South Sudan's varied ethnic groups. South Sudan has 64 tribes[1] with the largest being the Dinka, who constitute about 35% of the population[2] and predominate in government. The second largest are the Nuers. Conflict is often aggravated among nomadic groups over the issue of cattle and grazing land and is part of the wider Sudanese nomadic conflicts.

In 2010, Dennis Blair, the United States Director of National Intelligence, issued a warning that "over the next five years... a new mass killing or genocide is most likely to occur in southern Sudan."[3][4] In April 2017, Priti Patel, the Secretary of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, declared the violence in South Sudan as genocide.[5]

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  2. ^ South Sudan. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
  3. ^ Abramowitz, Michael; Lawrence Woocher (26 February 2010). "How Genocide Became a National Security Threat". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Sudan: Transcending tribe". Al Jazeera English. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  5. ^ "UK goes beyond UN to say South Sudan violence 'is now genocide'". The Independent. 12 April 2017. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.