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	ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies
		GOAL Sudan started emergency humanitarian operations in the Jebel Marra Region of West Darfur in July 2004.
		The program was designed to provide nutrition, health, road construction and food security assistance to the local population.
		In addition to that, in March 2005 GOAL Sudan conducted a post-harvest Food Security and nutrition survey and the findings of this survey showed that 90% of the Jebal Marra communities can not cover 60% of their basic food needs.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6JUEZK?OpenDocument (835 words)

	Darfur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is largely an arid plateau with the Marrah Mountains (Jebel Marra), a range of volcanic peaks rising up to 3,000 m (10,100 ft), in the center of the region.
		The one exception is the area in and around the Jebal Marra mountains.
		The Daju, inhabitants of Jebel Marra, appear to have been the dominant group in Darfur in the earliest period recorded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darfur (2401 words)

	Information on Potato Production in Sudan.
		The area around Jebel Marra in the western part of the country is the second most important potato area of Sudan, although production figures are not available.
		Soils are generally fertile, derived from volcanic materials in the uplands and from fluvial deposits in the valleys.
		As in the case of Jebal Marra, conditions of soil, temperature, and rainfall make the southern highlands an attractive potential area for potato cultivation.
	lanra.anthro.uga.edu /potato/africa/sudan.htm (1719 words)

	Darfur - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fur, in the center, from Wadi Azum in the west to Al Fasher in the east.
		Tama, in a small pocket between Jebel Si and Jebel Marra
		The Darfur region is mostly semi-arid plains that cannot support a dense population.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Darfur (2312 words)

	FAO Program to Boost Crops & Livestock In Darfur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For example, in the central Jebal Marra, which is in the triangle between El Geneina, Nyala and El Fasher.
		Jebal Marra is considered the breadbasket of the greater Darfur region.
		Besides helping with crops, the FAO is also focusing on livestock.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-12/2004-12-02-voa68.cfm (562 words)

	SOL Darfur Crisis Folder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The conflict crystallized in tribal and ethnic race over pasture due to fact that the nomads who descended from Arabic origin, and the farmers who are mostly villagers descended from Negro origin live together.
		In 2001 the first military group was set up, consisted of 17 chaps headed by the lawyer Abd -Alwahid Mohammed Nour who was released from the precaution detaining due to his distribution to leaflets in the name of the “Democratic Revolutionary Forces” calling for tribalism and racism.
		And after the defeat of the People Movement and the failure of Bolad military campaign to occupy Jebel Marra and centralize on its peak, Garang employed Commander Abdul-Aziz Adam Alhilu, one of the Massalit descendants, for the purpose of attracting a part of them for the advantage of the Movement.
	www.sol-sd.com /dafurr_dos/militias.htm (3297 words)

	ARC Sudan Achievements
		Jebal Marra, high yielding medium sized for Jebal Mara
		Four varieties of mandarin: Kinnow, Kara, Wilking, Temple for New Halfa and Jebal Marra
		Four navel orange varieties: Frost Navel, Barent, Gellete and Sukari for Jebal Marra
	www.arcsudan.sd /achievements.htm (1078 words)

	MEDICINAL, CULINARY AND AROMATIC PLANTS IN THE NEAR EAST - Gum arabic in Sudan: production and socio-economic ...
		These areas are the ranges of the Imatong and Dongatana, the Didinga in the South of Equatoria State, the Red Sea hills in the East, and Jebal in the West of Dafur State.
		The mountain ranges in Equatoria contain the usual tropical forest Marra species plus some coniferous species such as Podocarpus melanjianus and Juniperus procera in addition to Olea hochstetteri and O.
		The latter also grow in Jebal Marra and the Red Sea hills.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5402E/x5402e12.htm (2441 words)

	Global Health Council - UN Official Paints Grim Picture on Darfur Prospects
		The primary reason, he said, is the growing insecurity for tens of thousands of civilians and the 14,000 unarmed humanitarian workers who are facing increasing violence from Arab militias known as the Janjaweed, rebels, government forces and bandits, he said.
		As a result, Egeland said, UN relief officials and their partner relief organizations cannot reach more than 300,000 people on the Chad border in western Darfur and the central mountainous region of Jebal Marra because they are too dangerous.
		These unreachable areas, he said, "will soon get massively increased mortality because there is nothing else but international assistance" and once food supplies run out malnutrition and disease will increase leading to starvation.
	www.globalhealth.org /news/article/7245 (247 words)

	Al- Hakawati
		There are mountains on the east that overlook the Red Sea, and mountains on the south bordering Uganda, where the highest peak is at Kinyeti, at 3187m.
		Southwest of al Fashir is Jebal Marra, a mountain with a peak at 3088m.
		Sudan’s rivers are the Nile and its tributaries: the Blue Nile, Atraba and as Subat, all of which rise in the Ethiopian highlands.
	www.al-hakawati.net /english/States/state17.asp (427 words)

	Concern about Darfur refugees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		UN security officials in Darfur cited other alleged instances of continuing unrest - including showing the photograph of a wounded and bandaged two-year-old boy.
		Villagers said Janjaweed militia threw the boy into the flames of his home when they burned his village of Jebal Marra last week, Berhame Nagga, UN protection officer for West Darfur, said.
		Nagga said he visited the burned village, and said the destruction did appear recent.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1595348,00.html (685 words)

	Winne.com - Report on Sudan, Beyond Common Perceptions
		At the end of the western railway from Khartoum, Nyala is the nearest rail station to Jebel Marra.
		Animals can be purchased here for treks through Jebel Marra.
		The nation's principal port, population 207 000, on the Red Sea, has not got many attractions, and it is quite a run down place.
	www.winne.com /sudan/bf02.html (2194 words)

	Rape Survivors United to Save the Women of Darfur, Sudan from Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On September 28, the AP reported that "UN Security officials in Darfur cited other alleged instances of continuing unrest, showing a photograph of a wounded, bandaged 2-year-old boy.
		Villagers said Janjaweed militia threw the boy into the flames of his home when they torched his village of Jebal Marra."
		In an interview in late September 2004, Mustafa Osman Ismail, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sudan once again denied a link between the Janjaweed and the GOS.
	www.survivorsunited.com /timeline7.html (831 words)

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