Darfur Region:
A drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region killed 67 people and injured dozens recently.
- Darfur is a region in western Sudan.
- It lies between Kordofan to the east and Wadai to the west and extended southward to the Al-Ghazāl (Gazelle) River and northward to the Libyan Desert.
- It consists of an immense rolling plain that has an area of approximately 440,000 sq.km.
- The volcanic highlands of the Marrah Mountains dominate the central part of this plain.
- It was an independent sultanate until annexed by Sudan in 1916.
- The name “Darfur” is derived from “dar fur,” meaning “the land of the Fur” in Arabic.
- The Fur tribe once ruled the Islamic Sultanate of Darfur until the killing in 1916 of the last Sultan of Darfur.
- It is home to approximately 80 tribes and ethnic groups, encompassing both nomadic and sedentary communities.
- Arabs have long constituted the majority of the population in the northern part of Darfur, while Arabs and Fur have predominated in the southern portion.
- Other ethnic groups have included the Beja, Zaghawa, Nubian, and Daju peoples.
