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	KORDOFAN - LoveToKnow Article on KORDOFAN
		The greater part of Kordofan consists of undulating plains, riverless, barren, monotonous, with an average altitude of 1500 ft. Thickets and small acacias dot the steppes, which, green during the klzarif or rainy season, at other times present a dull brown burnt-up aspect.
		The nI or addra gazelle found in N. and N.W. Kordofan are not known elsewhere in the eastern Sudan.
		In/Iabittnts.The population of Kordofan was officially estimated in 1903 to be 550,000.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KO/KORDOFAN.htm (1479 words)

	New Page 1
		Kordofan State is the heart of Sudan because geographically is situated in the center of Sudan and extends for 380.000 sq.km.
		Kordofan climate ranges from the rich savana in the southern parts to the semi-desert in the northern parts.
		Kordofan boasts tourists’ areas, particularly in autumn and is rich in the folkloric traditions of its diverse population, such as dances of Baggara tribes (Nuggara) and (Kambala) of Nuba.
	www.geocities.com /omar_mahdi_1999/kordofan.htm (427 words)

	Desertification Monitoring: Is the Desert Encroaching?
		A stratification of a transect through N. Kordofan was carried out based on Landsat false colour composites (FCC) (188/49, 51, 52) and one MSS 5 image (188/50) recorded Nov. 9, 1972 and compared with a corresponding stratification based on Landsat imagery (MSS 5 and RBV imagery) recorded Jan. 25, 1979 (Fig.1).
		A 6,000 sq km area located in the centre of an old core area of cultivation was mapped to the scale of 1:500.000 through interpretation of the Landsat 1972 and 1979 imagery and compared to a map of cultivated fields based on interpretation of air photos (approximate scale 1:48,000) recorded in 1962.
		It was demonstrated by Ref. 25 that 85% of the variation in millet crop yields in Northern Kordofan could be explained by rainfall parameters during the 1952-1980 period.
	www.ciesin.columbia.edu /docs/002-178/002-178.html (3090 words)

	EL OBEID - LoveToKnow Article on EL OBEID
		It is situated about 2000 ft. above the sea, at the northern foot of Jebel Kordofan, in 13 II N. and 30 14 E. It is an important trade centre, the chief articles of commerce being gum, ivory, cattle and ostrich feathers.
		In September 1882 the town was assaulted by the troops of the mahdi, who, being repulsed, laid siege to the place, which capitulated on the j7th of January 1883.
		During the i\Iahdia the city was destroyed and deserted, and when Kordofan passed, in 1899, into the possession of the Anglo-Egyptian authorities nothing was left of El Obeid but a part of the old government offices.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EL/EL_OBEID.htm (1996 words)

	DHP
		Abstract: The region of North Kordofan was taken as a case study representing the vulnerable Sahelian zone in the Sudan.
		Meteorological data obtained from the Sudan Meteorological Department were examined in order to identify the general trends in the annual rainfall pattern in Northern Kordofan during the last two decades for the purpose of defining the relationship between the observed patterns among other factors and the biomass.
		Diversity of plant species in arid and semi-arid lands was under siege from the combined pressure of recent drought, hence the northerly habitats of Kordofan experienced a serious decline in range desirable species and the prevalence of drought resistant rejected forms.
	www.ossrea.net /dhp/dhp01-04.htm (3889 words)

	CARE Project :: North Kordofan Emergency Water and Health Project
		Kordofan Region, Northern Kordofan in particular, is facing a complex emergency situation brought about by a combination of environmental, economic and political factors.
		An overall decline in the national economy, 17 years of civil war and a reduction in external assistance as a result of the political context seriously undermined both the urban and rural populations'' capacity to maintain adequate livelihood security.
		The overall goal of the Kordofan Emergency Water and Health Project is andquot;To improve the health status of 130,000 drought-affected people in North Kordofan State through increasing their access to potable water and primary health care services by May 2002.
	www.careusa.org /careswork/projects/sdn089.asp (213 words)

	Africa Today: KORDOFAN INVADED: PERIPHERAL INCORPORATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN ISLAMIC AFRICA.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		KORDOFAN INVADED: PERIPHERAL INCORPORATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN ISLAMIC AFRICA.
		In chapter 1, Spaulding gives a well-crafted summary of what is known about early Kordofan, drawing on inferences from comparative linguistics and a wide range of precolonial historical texts.
		In chapter 2, Stiansen analyzes the economic practices and local connections of foreign traders in Kordofan's nineteenth-century...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:59210421&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (172 words)

	Rural Solar Energy Development in Kordofan State
		These methods proved to be unsustainable as fuelwood contributed to higher levels of deforestation and diesel pumps were costly in their operation and maintenance.
		At the small-enterprise level this meant that personnel from mechanical workshops in Kordofan were trained to manage installation and maintenance programs of PV systems and to manufacture components.
		The principal beneficiaries of the program are the members of the rural communities in Kordofan, and in particular, women and children.
	www.solutions-site.org /cat2_sol67.htm (1246 words)

	FAO/GIEWS - Special Report on Sudan, December 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		North Kordofan is frequently in deficit for cereals and relies on the sale of a number of cash crops and livestock to purchase adequate cereal supplies.
		For the whole of North Kordofan, the estimated harvested area of cereals was 50 percent higher than last year, and the production double at 100 000 tons but meeting less than half the food needs of the state.
		South Kordofan has had a broadly similar weather pattern although the September drought was less severe, and areas harvested and yields were better, overall, than in the two northern states of the region.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/w7589e/w7589e00.htm (10963 words)

	Ethnologue: Sudan
		Northern Sudan, Kordofan Province, northwest of Dilling on range of hills of which Jebel Nyimang is a part, and on the Mandal range.
		The West Kordofan dialect is in the Daju Hills near Lagowa, with main settlements at Dar el Kabira, Nyukri, and Tamanyik and other hills.
		Northern Sudan, Kordofan Province, Nuba Mountains, in villages in the Shwai Hills, northwest of Otoro near Heiban-Kadugli road.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Suda.html (6636 words)

	SudanTribune topics - Latest articles on Kordofan... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wali said that the priorities of his government include the implementation of the peace agreement, rehabilitation and development, patching up the social fabric and enhancement of services for the state’s citizens, especially that South Kordofan was greatly affected by the war.
		CARE International said in a statement its clearly marked vehicle was fired on without warning on Thursday morning during a visit to a water and sanitation project in West Kordofan, which borders the troubled Darfur area.
		KHARTOUM, Dec 18, 2004 (Al-Khartoum) — Western Kordofan State government has belittled the influence of the activities of Al-Shahamah rebel group describing the group as being present in weak pockets and whose members are not more than "20," especially following the death of the their leader, Musa Ali Hamadayn, last month at Warwar in Bahr-al-Ghazal.
	www.sudantribune.com /mot.php3?id_mot=34 (790 words)

	Kordofan
		In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: North, South, and West Kordofan.
		Following British reoccupation in 1898, Kordofan was added (1899) to the number of provinces of the Sudan.
		In 1928 Kordofan province was amalgamated with the province of the Nuba Mountains which had been a separate province since 1913.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0020610.html (278 words)

	Special Report: Sudan - 17 January 2001
		For various interventions in the drought affected States of Kordofan, Darfur and the Red Sea, an estimated 78 000 tonnes of cereals are required.
		In some areas, such as parts of Kordofan, where the normally staggered start to the rains allows a movement of labour for weeding, this year's uniform start resulted in inadequate weeding of a high proportion of cultivated land.
		Rainfall in most of Greater Kordofan was satisfactory this year in terms of both quantity and distribution, though this was not always the case in some areas in the north of North Kordofan.
	www.fao.org /WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/2002/SRSUD102.htm (7030 words)

	KORDOFAN - Online Information article about KORDOFAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The ril or addra gazelle found in N. and N.W. Kordofan are not known elsewhere in the eastern Sudan.
		population of Kordofan was officially estimated in 1903 to be 550,000.
		The Baggara of Kordofan from that time onward were the chief supporters of the mandi, and his successor, the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KORDOFAN.html (2548 words)

	Kordofan Invaded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kordofan's history is characterised by resistance and adaptation to expanding states and market forces causing both sectoral transformation and stagnation.
		The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to the state structures.
		This edited volume explores the history, social structure and economy of Kordofan in the Sudan.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=368 (242 words)

	June-July 2004
		This is that Southern Kordofan returns to wider boundaries before the division of Kordofan into three, thereby reincorporating the southern part of the current western Kordofan state, i.e.
		This meets the SPLA demand that Lagowa be included within Southern Kordofan, and makes the Kordofan option more attractive for the residents of Abyei, but also increases the proportion of Baggara Arabs in the region so there is close to a demographic equivalence between Nuba and Arabs.
		The expansion of Southern Kordofan is unpopular both with the Nuba and the Missiriya, the latter discontented with the dissolution of the former Western Kordofan state.
	www.justiceafrica.org /June_July04.htm (4385 words)

	CARE Project :: Kordofan Emergency Relief Project (KERP)
		Provinces in North Kordofan (NK) State mainly Sodari, Bara and Um Rawaba provinces also report steadily rising levels of migration due to the lack of drinking water and the food shortages.
		In response to this escalating food insecurity, CARE is aiming to distribute 4, 000 MT of sorghum to a total of 376,288 people being identified as highly and moderately vulnerable and in need of food assistance.
		The overall objective of CARE's free food distribution (FFD) relief project is to mitigate the incidence of migration, morbidity and mortality affecting 376,288 people in North Kordofan the provision of 4,000 MT of sorghum.
	www.careusa.org /careswork/projects/SDN083.asp (366 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nubia
		The chief cities are: Khartoum, at the junction of the White and Blue Niles, founded in 1823 and the starting-point of all scientific and missionary expeditions, destroyed in 1885 by the Mahdi, rebuilt in 1898; Omdurman, on the Abiad, founded by the Mahdi; Sennar, capital of Southern Nubia; Kassala, capital of Taka.
		From the Middle Ages there is little information as to the position of Christianity; Islam became supreme, partly by force, partly by the amalgamation of the native with the Arabian tribes.
		The Mahdi, Mohammed Ahmed, in 1880 conquered Kordofan, in 1883 vanquished the Egyptian army, and on 26 January, 1885, destroyed Khartoum.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11147a.htm (1581 words)

	Ministry Daily news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He pointed out that the delegation is considered as real start for consolidating the social fabric and peaceful coexistence in the area.
		He called on women to contribute to the mobilization for rehabilitation and development, pointing out that a college for social development is to be established to enhance the leading role of women in the society.
		Meanwhile, West Kordofan State reaffirmed support to the President of the Republic for protecting and maintaining peace for realizing stability and development.
	www.sudanmfa.com /ministry10e.htm (1050 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Hungry families in Sudan will be able to plant their crops
		The Kordofan region is mainly made up of farming families living on smallholdings on average around five acres in size.
		The food situation is critical – and food shortages are widespread in Kordofan, made worse by drought, high grain prices and civil war in Darfur.
		This makes it even harder to plant new crops, and the people of Kordofan could be forced to move from their land in search of food and water to refugee camps in Darfur, which are already under strain.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/FPRI-6FQB8A?OpenDocument (419 words)

	InterAction.org \| Media
		The food shortage is due to insufficient and erratic rains causing crops to fail and insecurity in areas such as Darfur and West Kordofan.
		CARE is the only aid agency in North and West Kordofan with capacity to immediately implement a large-scale program.
		CARE plans to distribute seed for sorghum, millet, groundnut (staple crops), as well as sesame and cowpea (cash crops), to be planted in April and May. CARE also plans to establish a network of farmers to distribute improved seed varieties and receive training in seed multiplication techniques.
	www.interaction.org /newswire/detail.php?id=3784 (482 words)

	UNICEF - Base de données d'évaluation -
		The decision by the senior management of UNICEF to allow local procurement of some materials and equipment, which were critical to the implementation of the Project, was timely and assisted greatly in accelerating the pace of its implementation.
		There is 100% achievement in almost all the planned activities except in the rehabilitation of the water yards, where there is a balance of two (one in North and the other in South Kordofan) that were still being worked on by the time of the evaluation.
		It is evident that the State Water corporations lack financial resources to invest in either new water facilities or in the major rehabilitation of old ones like the water yards, yet this is really necessary in the reduction of drought emergencies.
	www.unicef.org /french/evaldatabase/index_14297.html (1285 words)

	PeaceTalk, Winter, 2001-2002
		For thousands of years, the Nuba have occupied most of what is known today as Kordofan Province.
		But because of successive attacks by the various Arab tribes, who invaded Sudan from the 16th century onwards, they retreated to the mountains of south Kordofan that became their permanent homeland.
		But because of successive attacks by the various Arab tribes, who invaded Sudan from the 16th century onwards, they retreated to the mountains of south Kordofan that became their permanent homeland, and took the name of Nuba Mountains.
	www.peaceactionme.org /dec1nuba.html (609 words)

	Sudan Studies Association, 22nd Meeting
		The story that is revealed in this paper is the process of Sudan gradually developing a distinct administrative and financial separation from Egypt – a consequence, and an effect of, the problem of control in a country technically governed by two other countries.
		By the 1860’s this diaspora made up of Dangolawi, Ja’alin exercised firm control over the commercial operations in Kordofan and were steadily gaining political control as well.
		The political infighting eventually led to bloodshed as the two powerful merchants used local leaders and there followers to exert control on the ground.
	www.sudanstudies.org /panel5.html (916 words)

	No slavery found in Nuba Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At around 2 p.m., we arrived at El Obeid, the capital of Northern Kordofan state, and the capital of the old Kordofan state before it was subdivided into three states.
		There we were met by the acting governor of the state, the agricultural minister of Southern Kordofan state, members of the state assembly, and other officials.
		As we continued to travel south from Northern Kordofan into Southern Kordofan state, the climate and geography changed into a region that was lush with vegetation, displaying the enormous agricultural potential of the state.
	www.aboutsudan.com /issues/human_rights/no_slavery_found.htm (1368 words)

	IFAD to fund Kordofan farmers, pastoralists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NAIROBI, 16 Feb 2005 (IRIN) - An estimated 200,000 households in the impoverished central Sudanese region of Kordofan are to benefit from a new programme by the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Farhana Haque-Rahman, IFAD's chief of media relations, said in a press statement on Monday.
		The loan agreement was signed by Lennart Bage, president of IFAD, and Magzoub El Khalifa, the Sudanese federal minister of agriculture, at IFAD headquarters in Rome.
		With a poverty rate of 50-70 percent, Kordofan, which borders the war-torn region of Darfur, is one of the poorest parts of Sudan.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=45587 (388 words)

	Islamic Relief - North Kordofan Water Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This problem is particularly acute in the North Kordofan area, where the population has limited access to clean potable water facilities.
		It is estimated that 10,000 people die yearly due to diarrhoeal diseases which is directly related to unsafe water.
		This well had a significant impact on the area and its success triggered the need for a 10 yr well digging programmes.
	www.islamic-relief.com /projects/sudan/4.htm (819 words)

	Maimeri Blu Superior Watercolors 15 ml. tube cadmium yellow lemon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The pigment concentration is very high: 52 of 72 colors are formulated with a sole pigment to ensure maximum color purity and tone neatness.
		The binder, gum-Arabic from Kordofan, is considered the best in the field of fine arts.
		Featuring an extremely wide range of 72 colors, this new line is characterized by the exceptional intensity and lightfastness of its colors.
	www.craftnshop.com /116928971/index7363.html (1142 words)

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