Nuer

American  

[noo-er] / ˈnu ər /

noun

plural

Nuers,

plural

Nuerer

1. a member of a tribal people who live along the Nile in southern Sudan and subsist chiefly by raising cattle.

2. the Nilotic language of the Nuer people.

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Example Sentences

These have been fuelled by ethnic divisions - Kiir is Dinka, while Machar is Nuer - and competing political ambitions.

From BBC

Thursday’s clashes in the Malakal camp occurred between members of the Shilluk and Nuer ethnic groups, a local representative of the displaced people told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times

The camp residents are overwhelmingly from the Nuer ethnic group, and even though a peace agreement among Nuer and Dinka political leaders has ended the worst bloodshed, they still see South Sudanese institutions, as well as the capital of Juba, as Dinka-dominated — and unsafe.

From Washington Post

The country, over the last years, has seen the limits of the peace deal forged between South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, a Dinka, and his Nuer deputy, Riek Machar.

From Washington Post

Machar comes from the second largest, the Nuer.

From Reuters