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- noun Any member of a
pastoral confederation oftribes located in southernSudan and westernEthiopia , forming one of the largestethnic groups of East Africa.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gai Bol Thong is the director of an organization called Nuer Youth of North America, which he said provides humanitarian support for the Nuer, one of the predominant ethnic/tribal communities of South Sudan
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It is home to the Nuer, among the tallest and most striking people in Africa imagine a 6' 2 version of Iman, and it was a place so beguiling I did not want to leave, hoping to miss the once-a-week flight to Addis Ababa.
Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011
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The battlefield had seen Nuer fight Nuer before: Among the still-bleeding corpses were scattered vertebrae and clean-picked skulls….
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Some seventy years ago the English anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard wrote up his findings about Southern Sudan and remarked on the similarity of the neighboring peoples, the Nuer and Dinka.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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A reporter visited a combat zone and discovered that both sides came from the same group, the Nuer tribe, who were not Muslims.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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It is home to the Nuer, among the tallest and most striking people in Africa imagine a 6' 2 version of Iman, and it was a place so beguiling I did not want to leave, hoping to miss the once-a-week flight to Addis Ababa.
Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011
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The indigenous people of Juba, the Bari, see Juba as their land and find it difficult to accept large numbers of the Dinka, Nuer and others…they feel it is an occupation of their own ancestral land.
North and South Sudan: Challenge of Forming Cooperative Ties 2011
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South Sudan has been rent for decades by local conflicts between its three main pastoral Nilotic tribes, the Dinka, Shilluk and Nuer, who routinely launch raids on one another for cattle and women.
Eric Margolis: Sudan Faces an Earthquake Eric Margolis 2011
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It is home to the Nuer, among the tallest and most striking people in Africa imagine a 6' 2 version of Iman, and it was a place so beguiling I did not want to leave, hoping to miss the once-a-week flight to Addis Ababa.
Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011
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Berkeley found that the Southern Sudanese rebels, split between the Nuer and Dinka tribes, frequently attacked one another as well as the civilian population.65
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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