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UNHCR Office for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund

UNMIS United Nations Mission in Sudan

USAID United States Agency for International Development

Wahhabiyya See Salafiyya

wali friend of God or Sufi saint; Governor of a state

WCC World Council of Churches

wilaya (Ar.) federal state

WNPOC White Nile Petroleum Operating Company

zar (Ar.) women’s spirit cult in the Nile Valley and elsewhere

in north and eastern Africa, also the name given to these

spirits

zariba (Ar.) thorn enclosure to protect livestock; armed camp of

slave and ivory traders in the nineteenth century

zikr See dhikr

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

(www.riftvalley.net).