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Customary law

Bari elders holding a traditional council beneath a sacred fig tree in South Sudan.

Justice Beneath the Fig Tree

In the fertile plains of Central Equatoria in South Sudan, the Bari people have long valued peace, unity, and mutual respect as the foundations of community life. Villages were not held together by written laws alone but by customs carefully preserved through oral tradition and faithfully practiced by each generation. Whenever disagreements arose over farmland, livestock, family matters, or community

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