Ethiopia
The Anuak are a Luo people whose villages are scattered along the banks and rivers of southwestern area of Ethiopia, with others living directly across the border in southern Sudan. The name of this people is also spelled Anyuak, Agnwak, and Anywaa.
The Anuak who live in the lowlands of Gambela are also distinguished by the color of their skin and considered to be black Africans as opposed to most other Ethiopians living in the highlands who are of lighter color.
There has been overt racial discrimination and marginalization by this government and by other ethnicities based on skin color. It has affected the Anuak’s access to education, health care and other basic services as well as limiting opportunities for development of the area.
The Anuak of Sudan live in a grassy region that is flat and virtually treeless. During the rainy season, this area floods, so that much of it becomes swampland with various channels of deep water running through it. Also the Acholi in South Sudan occupies what is now called Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State. They border the Uganda Acholi of Northern Uganda. The South Sudan Acholi numbers about ten thousand at 2008 population Census.
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