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  Adventures of Sudan: Nyala
Nyala was the capital in the Sultanate of Fur from 15th century, and this kingdom lasted for several hundred years.
The situation of Nyala is one of its main attractions, just on the foot of the Darfur massif.
Nyala serves in most cases as the base for treks going into these mountains, where Jabal Marra as the highest mountain around here, is the goal of most.
lexicorient.com /sudan/nyala.htm   (122 words)

  
 Embassy of Sudan in South Africa - Tourism | Transport
Sudan Airways is a member of the international Aviation Transport Association (IATA), Arabic Association for Air Transport and Africa Airlines Companies Association.There are several foreign airlines companies serving in Sudan to different parts of the World.
To travel in side Sudan, and because of its hugeness, all means transport whether by land, river or by Air, are in use traveling by land is easier now a days because of the construction of thousands of km of highways.
The reason for the construction of rail ways from Wadi-Halfa in the north to the interior of Sudan at the turn of the century was to facilitate the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian army, led by lord Kitchener and in establishing its supply lines.
www.sudani.co.za /tourism_transport.htm   (1030 words)

  
 In Sudan, militia members aren't easy to spot | The San Diego Union-Tribune
NYALA, SudanSudan's government lined up 50 prisoners at the main jail here recently and offered them as evidence to the world that it was cracking down on the militias that have stained so much of the desert sand of Darfur, the country's western region, with blood.
But when the men spoke and when their court files were reviewed, it quickly became clear that many of them were not members of the militias, which have displaced a million villagers in the past year and a half and killed tens of thousands in what the U.S. Congress calls a genocide.
Further muddying things, the government accuses the rebels, who call themselves the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement, of using camels during some of their attacks, pretending to be Janjaweed in an attempt to smear officials in Khartoum.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040806/news_1n6sudan.html   (1243 words)

  
 More than 50 killed in Sudan militia raid | The San Diego Union-Tribune
NYALA, Sudan – Arab militiamen killed at least 56 people in a raid in western Sudan, villagers said yesterday, just days after the government declared that the troubled region was stable.
Abdel-Rahman Rizk, 29, speaking from a Nyala hospital bed where he was recovering from a bullet wound to the thigh, said the militiamen who surrounded the village arrived on horses and camels and in a car.
Others from the area gave the same figure, although an official from the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), one of the two main rebel groups in Darfur, said he had understood that 46 were killed.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040524/news_1n24sudan.html   (453 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Sudan
[kcm] 200 to 2,000 in Sudan (1987 SIL).
Northern Sudan, Dar Fur Province, Dar Masalit and Nyala District, scattered colonies in Dar Fongoro and to the south and east, and Gedaref Region; Geneina, Mistere, and Habila Kajangise.
Southern Sudan, Torit District, eastern Equatoria Province, east and southeast of the Luluba and the Lokoya.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Sudan   (4938 words)

  
 nyala - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Terex outgrows digs in Westport; to move HQ to Nyala Farms.
SUDAN - Alleged Janjaweed prisoners in Nyala jail.
Mohammed Adam Mohammed stands with his horse which he recovered after it was stolen by Janjaweed.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-nyala.html   (179 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Possibility of epidemic joins violence as threat in Sudan
NYALA, Sudan — Two weeks after Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited this part of Sudan in the hope that the glare of diplomatic shame might arrest a human crisis, conditions are still miserable.
That is a gruesome reminder of the kind of violence the Sudan government has promised to stop by reining in the Janjaweed militias that it once encouraged when the government's focus was on quelling a civil war that swept Darfur.
In Nyala, the capital of one of the three provinces in the Darfur region, government officials said they now controlled a 25-mile radius outside of town.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001982481_sudan18.html   (753 words)

  
 For Dinkas, Sudan's Two Conflicts Run Together   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tens of thousands of ethnic Dinkas fled to Sudan's western Darfur region to escape the brutal, long-running war in the south, now these same refugees are increasingly being caught up in Darfur's crisis.
Dinkas and other tribes from southern Sudan who fled to this region years ago to escape the violence in the country's south now find themselves caught up in the cycle of violence raging in Darfur.
Sudan's two conflicts, the one in the south and the one in the west, are beginning to merge on the ground, but at the negotiating table the two conflicts are separate.
www.voanews.com /english/2004-11-30-voa39.cfm   (815 words)

  
 Despite appeals, chaos still stalks the Sudanese
NYALA, Sudan, July 14 -- Two weeks after Colin L. Powell and Kofi Annan visited this region in hopes that the glare of diplomatic shame might arrest a humanitarian crisis, conditions in Western Sudan have grown even worse.
In Nyala, the capital of one of the three states in Darfur affected by the violence, government officials said they now control a 25-mile radius outside of town.
There was a man writhing on the floor of the Nyala hospital with a gash in his bicep that he received during a militia attack several days earlier.
www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=5984   (1453 words)

  
 Darfur: Family reunited after three years
In Sudan as elsewhere, the ICRC traces children who become separated from their parents in the turmoil of an armed conflict.
Once the airport formalities were over, the two brothers were driven to the Nyala sub-delegation to be reunited with their parents.
The organization is presently monitoring the cases of 500 separated children in the province.
www.icrc.org /Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/sudan-stories-051106   (613 words)

  
 Nyala, Sudan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nyala (Daju: "the place of chatting or a theatre") is the capital of South Darfur state in the western part of the Sudan.
It was the headquarter of the Daju empire which was established around Jebel Um-Kurdós, where according to an account of sultan Daju Kassi Furok or Kassifrogé who mounted the Antelope from Darfur then perished in Dar Sila took place, until the fall of the Daju rule at the end of the fifteenth century.
When Great Britain conquered the Sudan, the British Commander in Chief met Sultan Adam Suleiman in 1932 seeking his advice for his knowledge of the best places in terms of availability of water sources and land topography in order to establish the British Administration Headquarter in Darfur.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nyala,_Sudan   (204 words)

  
 UNICEF - Sudan - Newsline
DARFUR, Sudan, 20 September 2006 — Cases of life-threatening diarrhoeal disease, including cholera, are on the increase in a region extending from the north of Sudan to southern Darfur.
RUMBEK, Sudan, 5 December 2005 — “What’s done, is done,” whispers Grace* as she rests in the shade, but the searching look she gives her husband, Oliver*, and the little mound of dirt behind her, betray the fact that her grief is still fresh.
NYALA, Sudan/NEW YORK, 8 November 2004 — UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow and her son Seamus are in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, to witness firsthand the worsening humanitarian crisis.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/sudan_newsline.html   (5399 words)

  
 Market in Darfur Busy Selling Looted Livestock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Arab militias in Sudan's western Darfur region are accused of looting millions of dollars worth of livestock from African villages.
With the cattle, because they would be taken from outside Nyala there, he doesn't know exactly, but from his own tribe, the Zaghawa, had about 5,000 head of cattle taken.
In this part of Sudan, like much of Africa, ownership of livestock is a measure of wealth and stature.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-11/2004-11-15-voa20.cfm   (833 words)

  
 Sudan deal may end civil war - World - www.theage.com.au
The agreement, reached in Naivasha, Kenya, also promises Christians in Sudan's devastated southern region a referendum in 2010 on whether to secede, a hard-won victory by the rebels.
Oil-rich Sudan is one of the world's most desperate nations, with between 4 and 5 million people displaced from war.
In the meantime, the UN is considering sending a peacekeeping force to Sudan, but the Government will not allow it to go to the Darfur region, which is the size of France.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/27/1085641647017.html?from=storylhs   (532 words)

  
 News: Sudan, Sudan: Darfur refugees free last aid worker hostages
NYALA, Sudan, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Refugees released on Tuesday the last of the aid workers they had taken hostage in Darfur's largest camp, but police continued to detain one of their leaders, a U.N. spokesman said.
Armed police had arrested a tribal leader on Sunday in Kalma camp outside Nyala in South Darfur state, prompting the camp residents to take up to 34 hostages to barter for his release, sources in the aid community said.
The hostages were released gradually, with the last five, who worked in the government water and sanitation agency, freed on Tuesday evening, the sources said.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6HJ524?OpenDocument   (400 words)

  
 Darfur Information.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
NYALA, Sudan, April 19, 2004 (AP) -- A Sudanese Cabinet minister called on international aid agencies to come to work in a western region where the government has been accused of backing "ethnic cleansing" of Africans by Arab tribespeople.
But officials in Nyala said two camps nearby sheltered a total of 40,000 people who had fled their homes because of the violence.
Sudan vows to disarm Arab militias in Darfur
www.darfurinformation.com /g_minister_aid.asp   (781 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : In Sudan, the daily battle to provide aid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
NYALA, Sudan, April 25, 2005 — Julius Lanya, a nurse in mud-caked work boots, rushed out of his office, leaned over Haja Hamid and began gently examining the gaunt 12-year-old girl, limb by limb, as she rested on a straw mat under a tree.
Haja’s skin was flaking badly, the sign of a chronic vitamin A deficiency, Lanya explained to her worried parents.
Their tasks range from monitoring tubes at infant feeding centers to digging sanitation ditches and boreholes for water outside one of the dozens of squalid refugee camps that dot Darfur’s war-shattered landscape.
www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=9255   (1947 words)

  
 Darfur: Learning to walk again
Slowly but surely, victims of the conflict in western Sudan are learning to walk again.
According to Pierre Gratzl, the ICRC's medical coordinator in Sudan, "people who have been shot in the arm or leg must sometimes wait weeks before they can be treated, and the only way to save their lives is to amputate the infected limb before gangrene sets in."
The Nyala centre is one of six limb-fitting centres in the country.
www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/sudan-stories-061106   (724 words)

  
 Rebel groups kill 40 in Darfur
Children are seen at a school in Greida camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) at Darfur, southeast of Nyala, Sudan June 12, 2006.
It happened on Friday", the Guardian quoted an official from one of several aid agencies which withdrew from reida to Nyala, the regional capital, at the weekend.
European diplomats were in Sudan over the weekend and in Addis Ababa on Monday to try to break the impasse to ensure a security vacuum does not occur when the mandate for AU forces ends on December 31.
www.sudaneseonline.com /en/article_1460.shtml   (616 words)

  
 ABC News: Darfur Refugees Kill Translator in Sudan
NYALA, Sudan May 8, 2006 (AP)— Darfur refugees rioted Monday and forced the U.N. humanitarian chief to rush from their camp, then later attacked African peacekeepers and killed a translator in a sign of deep tensions in the wartorn region despite a fragile peace deal.
Egeland and the rest of the convoy returned safely to the nearby town of Nyala in South Darfur, she said.
The violence underscored the deep strains in Sudan's western Darfur region even after the Sudanese government and the main rebel group in Darfur signed a peace deal on Friday.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1937543   (378 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Sudan, Rebels Reach Accord On Darfur
NYALA, Sudan, Nov. 9 -- With violence increasing and political pressure mounting to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, the government agreed Tuesday to halt military flights over the region and signed a separate agreement to allow free access to aid for the nearly 2 million people displaced by the violence.
Just a week ago, Sudan's government called the idea of a no-fly zone "unreasonable" and threatened to shut down the peace talks.
Sudan's decision comes 10 days before a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, which could have imposed sanctions on the country's oil industry or taken other punitive measures because of the worsening security situation in Darfur.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38097-2004Nov9?language=printer   (788 words)

  
 afrol News: Sudan denounced for stoning and amputation sentences
On 8 December 2001, a criminal court in Nyala, southern Darfur, sentenced to death by stoning eighteen-year-old Abok Alfa Akok, a Christian woman from the Dinka tribe, after finding her guilty of adultery.
These emergency tribunals were established in Sudan in 2001 under the state of emergency to deal summarily with crimes such as armed robbery, murder, and smuggling of weapons.
The group called on the Sudanese government to monitor all courts in Sudan to ensure accordance with international human rights law and the rule of law.
www.afrol.com /News2002/sud004_stoning.htm   (796 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Mia Farrow visits Darfur on U.N. mission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
NYALA, Sudan (AP) — Performers from Darfur's various ethnic African and Arab tribes greeted actress Mia Farrow with dancing and singing as she arrived in Sudan's remote western region to appeal for international aid for the 2.5 million people made refugees by the conflict here.
The artists dancing side-by-side in Nyala — the capital of South Darfur — proved that ethnic groups could overcome the bitter enmity stemming from a four-year conflict that has killed more than 180,000 people, regional Culture Minister Abuker Eltom said upon greeting Farrow at the airport.
Sudan's government is accused of having unleashed in response Arab militias known as the janjaweed who are blamed for most of the rape, killing and looting.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-06-12-farrow-darfur_x.htm   (621 words)

  
 Matt Siller - Life in Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sudan was recently voted the number five most corrupt country in the world.
It just seems that these groups in Sudan are hypocritical because the religious leader builds an organization in the name of Islam but uses that as a front to make money.
I was suprised to find out he had a personal blog, mainly because folks in those positions, especially diplomatic ones, walk a thin line with publishing personal thoughts and those which reflect their organization.
mattsiller.com /blog   (7426 words)

  
 Darfur Refugees Kill Translator in Sudan - CBS News
The U.N.'s chief envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, warned that the peace deal would not mean an immediate end to fighting even though the government had given orders to various tribal leaders in the field to cease fire.
Pronk praised the faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army that signed Friday's peace accord and expressed contempt for the rival SLA faction and another rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, both of which rejected the agreement.
After months of resisting U.N. peacekeepers, Sudan said over the weekend that the peace deal paves the way for their deployment.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/05/08/ap/world/mainD8HFQK3GC.shtml   (926 words)

  
 Sudan opens special war crimes court - Africa - MSNBC.com
Sudan set up the court in an attempt to fend off U.N. demands that it hand over Darfur war crimes suspects to an international court.
Sudan has refused to turn over any Darfur suspects to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, despite U.N. demands.
Last week, the U.N.'s special envoy to Sudan on Tuesday welcomed the government's decision to prosecute those accused of crimes in Darfur, but he said the Sudanese tribunal was no substitute for the International Criminal Court.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8277535   (585 words)

  
 Nyala Hotels Reviews, Tips, Photos - VirtualTourist.com
Fortunately we'd been in Khartoum for a few days prior, where we had received food (even though it was Ramadan in KRT too) So I kicked up a fuss and threatened to leave, whereafter we were politely and apologetically served dinner and breakfast every day.
Directions: There's only one road leading from Nyala airport, the hotel is nearly at the end of this road, on the right, just before the road becomes a T-Junction - Diagonally opposite the AU Camp.
Nyala doesn't really have any hotels it's just some dusty one horse town but of course it does have some pretty nice houses owned by some pretty rich businessmen.
www.virtualtourist.com /hotels/Africa/Sudan/Wilayat_Darfur/Nyala-2229292/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Nyala-BR-1.html   (396 words)

  
 Amnesty International USA: Sudan
In particular we were eager to learn more about the cases of two lawyers taken into custody in July who have not been formally charged but who have been told their arrests were due to either criticism of the government or support for the rebel cause.
Somewhat to our surprise, we were granted unprecedented access to the National Security prison in Nyala where we inspected the prison and held long private conversations with the two lawyers.
The crisis in Sudan is horrific, and may well worsen if immediate action is not taken.
www.amnestyusa.org /countries/sudan/darfur_diary.html   (378 words)

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