[1] The Aliab Dinka mainly live in the Lakes State of South Sudan, in the Awerial County, to the west of the White Nile.
During the rainy season, usually starting in June, the river overflows its banks and floods the whole valley, which becomes a huge swamp.
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Finch White took several companies of the Egyptian Army Equatorial Battalion to the area to handle the situation.
[4] The Mongalla province Governor Chauncey Hugh Stigand went on patrol himself, and on 8 December 1919 was killed at Pap, between the Lau River and the White Nile.
[6] A force under Colonel Robert Henry Darwall led the punitive expedition, which killed over 400 Dinka, Atwot and Mandari tribesmen, burnt many villages and took about 7,000 cattle.
During the period starting in 1972 with the end of the First Sudanese Civil War the Aliab Dinka used their control of administrative posts to undermine the old agreements on dry season grazing.
About 40 people were killed in a dispute over grazing land on the border of Aliap and Terekeka counties during a period of water shortage.