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The Darfur genocide was the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people during the War in Darfur. The genocide, which was carried out against the Fur , Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, led the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict several people for crimes against humanity , rape , forced transfer and torture .
The Post-Colonial State and Civil War in Sudan: The Origins of Conflict in Darfur (I. B. Tauris, 2013). Daly, M.W., Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide, Cambridge 2010. Danielová, Veronika. "Darfur Crisis of 2003: Analysis of the Darfur Conflict from the Times of First Clashes to the Present Day."
The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, [note 1] was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.
The invasion of Darfur was the military invasion and occupation of the Sultanate of Darfur by the British Empire and the Sultanate of Egypt from 16 March to 6 November 1916. . The sultan of Darfur, Ali Dinar, had been reinstated by the British after their victory in the Mahdist War but during World War I he grew restive, refusing his customary tribute to the Sudanese government and showing ...
Al-Fashir, in the Darfur region of northwestern Sudan, is home to more than 1.8 million residents and displaced people, and is the latest front in a war between the Sudanese army and the RSF which ...
Al Zorg was created by the Rapid Support Forces near the end of the Darfur Conflict around 2017. According to Juma Dagalo, the mayor of the town and the uncle of Hemedti, the land rightfully belongs to the Mahariya because it was gifted to them by the British, and that the people of his ethnic group wanted to settle down.
Reference maps of Sudan from ReliefWeb, including many conflict maps from Darfur; Sudan Maps from the Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, includes both maps and USAID imagery; Crisis in Darfur imagery in Google Earth provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Darfur (/ d ɑːr ˈ f ʊər / dar-FOOR; Arabic: دار فور, romanized: Dār Fūr, lit. 'Realm of the Fur') is a region of western Sudan. Dār is an Arabic word meaning "home [of]" – the region was named Dardaju (Arabic: دار داجو, romanized: Dār Dājū) while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from Meroë c. 350 AD, and it was renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر, romanized ...