plural Dinkas also Dinka
1
: a member of a pastoral people of the Nile Valley in south central Sudan
2
: the Nilotic language of the Dinkas
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The power struggle in South Sudan between President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, and Vice President Riek Machar, a Nuer, took on an ethnic dimension during the civil war.
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Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2023
The fighting has largely been seen as a political struggle between factions allied to president Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group and supporters of the country’s first vice president, Riek Machar, mostly from the Nuer ethnicity.
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
In contrast, the blackness of a Dinka from Sudan is a matter of biological categorization.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2010
Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2023
The fighting has largely been seen as a political struggle between factions allied to president Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group and supporters of the country’s first vice president, Riek Machar, mostly from the Nuer ethnicity.
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
In contrast, the blackness of a Dinka from Sudan is a matter of biological categorization.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2010
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