The Otoro Nuba are an ethnic group in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. The name refers to the ethnic unit which Nuba people call themselves. Otoro meaning "Hill People".[1][2] They speak the Otoro language, a Niger-Congo language. They are very close to the Heiban tribe and they both live in the South of Nuba mountains between Delami and Talodi and can understand the language of one another[2].
Members of this ethnic group are mostly Christians.[3]
On 13 May 2026, 61 civilians were killed when the rebel group Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N) lead by Abdelaziz al-Hilu clashed with members from the Otoro tribe near Kauda, South Kordofan. The conflict had stemmed from Otoro tribesmen removing land boundary markers which lead to a confrontation between the Otoro and Shawaya tribes. [4]
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edit- ↑ Ille, Enrico (December 2015). ""Nuba" – A historical perective on changing and contested notions" (PDF). University of Halle. p. 11. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
- 1 2 Peristiany, J. G. (January 1949). "The Nuba. An Anthropological Study of the Hill Tribes in Kordofan. By S. F. Nadel, with a Foreword by Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston, Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. 527. 42s" (PDF). Africa. p. 101. doi:10.2307/1156266. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
- ↑ Popoviciu, Andrei. "Inside the Nuba Mountains and the alliance reshaping Sudan's civil war". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
- ↑ "Dozens killed in Kauda as SPLM-N clashes with Atoro tribe". Sudan Tribune. 14 May 2026. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
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