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Much of the Nuba population was enrolled by the rebel movement Sudan People's Liberation Army during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Others have left their home places and live now in Refugee camp. Arthur Howes takes his previous documentary Kafi's Story and he shows it to some Nuba people living in one of these refugee camps in Kenya.
The Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation (NRRDO) is a Sudanese humanitarian organization, the "best-known development organisation" of the Nuba people. [1] Established in 1993 with the involvement of Yousif Kuwa , the NRRDO provides the people of the Nuba Mountains with food, cooking oil, clothing and education.
Part of the farmlands of Bayt Nuba lay outside the closed military zone and some refugees from the village rented homes in a nearby village with a population of around 7,000 (called "Bayt Hajjar" by the author) to continue farming those lands. [38] [40] The settlement of Mevo Horon was built on the lands of Bayt Nuba in 1970. [8]
The light-filled amphitheater will offer almost 200,000 people displaced by South Sudan’s civil war a chance to rebuild their communities through dance and performance.
Children playing in Yida refugee camp. Yida is a settlement and refugee camp in Unity state, South Sudan. [1] In 2011 it had 20,000 people. As of June 2012, it has over 50,000. [2] Yida is located in wetland, 12 km from border with Sudan. [3] In the rainy season it is "virtually an island".
The Nuba people reside in one of the most remote and inaccessible places in all of Sudan, the foothills of the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan. At one time the area was considered a place of refuge, bringing together people of many different tongues and backgrounds who were fleeing oppressive governments and slave traders.
Wendy McCance, director of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Bangladesh, warned that international funding for the camp would run out within 10 years and called for refugees to be given "livelihood ...
During the war (1983–2005) between what is now Southern Sudan to include Nuba Mountains, South Kordafan Province (technically now in Sudan), Loki was the singular re-supply logistics point for the SPLA. Many flights originated from Loki to re-supply SPLA units in Nuba Mountains under the leadership of Abdel Azziz.