04/01/2026
GAMBELLA ACTION DAILY NEWS
A response and a call for investigation and accountability for the dangerously distorted Gambela history, it's people demographic distribution and what seems to be the concealed agenda behind the article written by Journalist Thuok Ruach.
A public figure working at Ethiopian Broadcasting cooperation with 64k followers on his Facebook account,
On January 3/26 Journalist Thuok Ruach who work at national yet narrowed minded with local thinking released an article stating that the Nuer are tribe in Gambela who are residing along the baro, Gilo, akobo and Alworo river, this article is based on unfounded fact and mainly written to deceive the public while creating confusion and instigate tribal conflicts in Gambela region which mainly occurs due to the illegal land expansion by the writer tribe with other native of the region.
There fore I would like to inform all Ethiopian, his followers and others who deserve to know to the truth,
The article written by Journalist Thuok Ruach lack truth, its inaccurate and it's not mainly not air out for public awareness but just it's a political motivated which favor a certain tribe interests while instigating the tribalism conflict that mainly arose due to the the Nuer land grabbing strategy.
Just to give the audience impartial and accurate history based on fact,
The Nuer are Nilotic people mainly located in Southern Sudan and some are currently found in Gambela who remarkably achieved their maximal territorial expansion in Gambela region mainly in 1970,
Prior to their migration the nuer are divided in to four clans Jikany, Bentiew, Lou and Pangak,
The jikany are the nuer who migrated to the land of Gambela( Anywaa Land) seeking for grazing and water for themselves and their animals following their defeated war by shuluk, where they were welcomed by the Anywaa and later seeing the vast green land, river and the less population of the Anywaa the Nuer took the opportunity
To expand their land
