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More than 20 dead, many displaced after violence in Sudan's West Darfur
2020-01-02
[AlAhram] At least 24 people were confirmed killed after a camp for internally displaced people was attacked in Sudan's West Darfur, an international peacekeeping official said on Wednesday, as brass hats arrived to try to calm the violence.

Krinding Camp, just east of state capital el-Geneina, was raided on Dec. 29-30 following a dispute between Arab and African ethnic groups, said Ashraf Eissa, a front man for the joint African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
-United Nations
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is risible. The war in Darfur pits Arab Muslim tribes trying to destroy the African Muslim tribes. The Arab camel and cattle nomads despise the African tribes and use the derogatory term abeed (slave) to describe them. It seems ironic that the Arabic commonly uses abd (slave) as in Abd-allah, as a given name, and then as an insult in Africa.
Posted by: b   2020-01-02 12:55  

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