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220 thE sudan handbook But Khartoum’s own momentum began to fade by 1995. Internation- ally it was now isolated as its former al ...

tWEntiEth-CEntuRy CiVil WaRs 221 Escalation of Fighting during the Peace Negotiations Peace negotiations under the auspices of t ...

222 thE sudan handbook The SPLA learned at least one lesson from the Addis Ababa Agree- ment, and it has not been absorbed into ...

223 13. The War in the West JéRômE tubiana Our problem is not between farmers and herders. Lies, useless, useless! You’re blind, ...

224 thE sudan handbook The shebab, the young people of fighting age that the song talks about, who are today dressed in fashiona ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 225 conflict, non-Arab groups did not refer to themselves as ‘indigenous’ or ‘African’ in the way they do to ...

226 thE sudan handbook in fact sided mostly with the government, while others have remained neutral. As the war has progressed, ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 227 From the Centre to the Margin Like many conflicts in the Horn of Africa, the Darfur rebellion can be see ...

228 thE sudan handbook from the Nile Valley, copying their clothes, their cuisine – even their way of speaking. Often educated i ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 229 groups that has retained Turabi’s revolutionary radicalism rather than his religious ideology. Wider pol ...

230 thE sudan handbook Land and Identity Darfuris’ sense of marginalization may have laid the basis for conflict, but it does no ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 231 seventeenth century, the hakura designates land, generally smaller than a dar and included inside a dar, ...

232 thE sudan handbook tenure system of the sultanate, which in some respects continued into the Condominium. Crucially, the sys ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 233 The Wars before the War Between 1987 and 1989, an armed conflict pitted the Fur against Arab groups in D ...

234 thE sudan handbook In 1968, the main concern was access to water and firearms. In the conflicts of the 1990s power and land ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 235 intense waves of drought, rainfall that became increasingly variable and a general reduction in the leng ...

236 thE sudan handbook move there. The region was much less inhabited than today, and they had no trouble finding an area ‘where ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 237 In recent years, tired of being considered by all – the other Arabs as well as non-Arabs – as criminals, ...

238 thE sudan handbook exile, relying on his once strong but slowly eroding reputation amongst hundreds of thousands of Fur IDPs ...

thE WaR in thE WEst 239 by eighteen months of conflict. Aware that this estimate did not take into account violent deaths and th ...