Identity and Self-determination: The Fertit Opposition in South Sudan

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 14 January, 2021

The Fertit community is a minority group in South Sudan that inhabit the former Western Bahr el Ghazal state. Out of it grew an opposition that came to form one of the many groups to take up arms against the Dinka dominated government in Juba and align with Riek Machar’s opposition coalition, the SPLA-IO.