Nuer people in South Sudan

Southern Sudan, Jiech, Nuer peoples. Portrait of a beautiful young Nuer woman wearing colorful clothes and headscarf. The Nuer, a Nilotic people, live in one of the most remote and untouched places in the world, along the Upper White Nile in Southern Sudan. The Nuer people live in a mixed agriculture/pastoralist economy centered on sorghum and cattle breeding. Their economy necessitates semiannual migrations between permanent wet-season settlements which are scattered across more than twenty-five thousand square miles of marsh-laden savanna and temporary dry-season cattle and fishing camps running along major tributaries of the Upper White Nile. (Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images)