Questions 1 and 2) We are unable to locate this specific information at the present time. One source indicates that "as a result of the rash arrests for attempted adultery during the early months of the state of emergency [since 1985], relations between unmarried persons have become more circumspect". [
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George Thomas Kurian, Encyclopedia of the Third World (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987), p. 1835.] Related issues are treated in U.S. Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, p. 356.

2) Ethnically, Sudan is fragmented into 56 ethnic groups, but the basic division of the country is into the Muslim Arab north and the Christian and animist south. The southern peoples include such tribes as the Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk and Nilote, among others. [ Ibid.] The realities of Sudan's north-south conflict and the political events which exacerbated tensions and encouraged civil war are thoroughly described in the attached Minority Rights Group's Report No. 78, published April 1988. For further information regarding government atrocities against the peoples of southern Sudan (which understandably include the Nuer), please refer to the U.S. Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, pp. 345-358.