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The Rizeigat, or Rizigat, or Rezeigat (Standard Arabic: Rizayqat) are a Muslim and an Arab tribe of the nomadic Baggara (Standard Arabic Baqqara) people in Sudan 's Darfur region and/or Chad region. The Rizeigat belong to the greater Baggara Arabs (Chadian Arabs) fraternity of Darfur, Kordofan and Chad, and speak Sudanese Arabic or Chadian Arabic.
The Abbala tribes in Sudan mainly reside in North and West Darfur. The largest and the tribe most synonymous with the term Abbala are the Northern Rizeigat, which consists of 5 sections; the Mahamid, Mahariyya, Nuwaiba, Irayqat and Atayfat. [20] Closely affiliated with them in Darfur are the Awlad Rashid tribe, who mostly live in Chad.
The term "Abbala" is mostly used in Sudan to distinguish them from the Baggara, a grouping of Arab ethnicities who herd cattle. Although, the two groupings share a common origin from the Juhaynah tribe of the Arabian peninsula and it is a common way to distinguish Rizeigat who herd camels in Northern Darfur and those who herd cows in Southern ...
More than 10,000 people have been killed in the Sudanese region of West Darfur in the past two months, tribal leaders say, amid a deadly conflict between two warring factions that has triggered a ...
The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s West Darfur province climbed to at least 83, including women and children, a doctor’s union and aid worker said, as ...
In December 2020, Sudan started to deploy troops to South Darfur "in large numbers", following recent tribal violence between the Masalit and Fula. [10] On 16 January fighting between Masalit people and Arab nomads in Al Geneina District, West Darfur, left 84 dead and 160 wounded.
The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including ethnic Masalits were buried in what it described as a mass grave in Sudan's West Darfur, saying it had credible ...
Messiria people. The 'Baggara Belt', a distribution area of the Baggara Arabs, Messiria is located in its central part, in southern Sudan near the border with South Sudan. The Messiria (Arabic: المسيرية), also known as Misseriya Arabs, are a branch of the Baggara ethnic grouping of Arab tribes. [1] Their language is primarily Sudanese ...