JIYE People

The Jiye are an ethnic group living in the Kathangor Hills in Eastern Equatoria state, South Sudan. They speak a Central Nilotic language, a dialect of the Toposa language.

They live in southern Sudan near the Uganda border. The Jiyes pursue a pastoral lifestyle, with the women and children living in permanent villages and the men leaving home seasonally to take the cattle to pastures. The cattle provide the Jiyes with milk, blood, and hides. Jiye women work agricultural plots and raise millet, maize, cow peas, and some tobáceo. Their traditional religión and culture revolve around cattle.

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