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GDP Gross Domestic Product

gizzu (Ar.) desert grazing that grows in parts of northwest

Darfur and Chad several months after the tiny amount of

seasonal rain that falls there

GNPOC Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company

GoNU Government of National Unity (from 2005)

GoS Government of Sudan (before 2005)

GoSS Government of Southern Sudan (from 2005)

goz (Ar.) stabilized sand dune

hakuma (Ar.) government or state, from hakm, to rule or govern

hakura estate of land in Darfur, historically administered on behalf

of a Sultan

ICC International Criminal Court

ICF Islamic Charter Front

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

idara ahliya See Native Administration

IDP Internally Displaced Person

IM Islamic Movement

IGAD Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (formerly

IGADD, Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and

Desertification)

Imam religious leader or official of a mosque

IMF International Monetary Fund

Ingaz (Ar.) name for NIF/NCP government that came to power

in 1989, literally ‘Salvation’

jallaba (Ar.) merchant; used by southern Sudanese to refer to

northern Sudanese generally

janjawid (Ar.) bandits; more recently, pro-government militias in

Darfur

JEM Justice and Equality Movement

jihad (Ar.) struggle in the cause of god; holy war

JIU Joint Integrated Unit

The Sudan Handbook, edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok. © 2011 Rift Valley Institute and contributors

(www.riftvalley.net).