Gambela People's Democratic Unity Party

{{short description|Former political party in Ethiopia}}

The Gambela People's Democratic Unity Party was a political party in Gambela Region, Ethiopia. GPDUP was mainly based amongst Nuer people, formed in 1992 in Nasir in the midst of mass displacements of Nuers as the Anuak-dominated Gambela People's Liberation Movement had taken control over Gambela in 1991.{{cite book|author=Dereje Feyissa|title=Playing Different Games: The Paradox of Anywaa and Nuer Identification Strategies in the Gambella Region, Ethiopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_J5dkSMCdlIC|date=1 July 2011|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-0-85745-089-0|page=152}}{{cite book|author=Bahru Zewde|title=Society, State, and Identity in African History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpzMU-txNF8C&pg=PA142|year=2008|publisher=African Books Collective|isbn=978-99944-50-25-1|page=142}} GPLM and GPDUP struggled violently against each other for most of the 1990s, until the Addis Ababa government intervened and forced the merger of the two parties into the Gambela People's Democratic Front in 1998.{{cite book|author1=Günther Schlee|author2=Elizabeth E. Watson|title=Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa: Sudan, Uganda and the Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fX6pCg3iDHcC&pg=PA199|year=2009|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-84545-604-7|page=199}}{{cite book|author1=Eva-Maria Bruchhaus|author2=Monika M. Sommer|title=Hot spot horn of Africa revisited: approaches to make sense of conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rX4MAQAAMAAJ|date=4 July 2008|publisher=Lit|isbn=978-3-8258-1314-7|page=154}}