They have a significant diaspora abroad and are considered the tallest people on the African continent, alongside the Tutsi people of Rwanda. The Dinka tribes are the largest tribe in the East and ...

They have a significant diaspora abroad and are considered the tallest people on the African continent, alongside the Tutsi people of Rwanda. The Dinka tribesare the largest tribe in the East and ...

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 ...

A groom's family pays a bride's family for the marriage, usually in cattle. As the Dinka tribe in South Sudan has a largely cattle-based form of wealth, this practice is a big part of the local ...

Fighting broke out a few months after Kiir, from the Dinka tribe, sacked Machar, a Nuer. His reinstatement in 2016 lasted just weeks before violence erupted again. The conflict has increasingly ...