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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Native American tribes in Texas are the Native American tribes who are currently based in Texas and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who historically lived in Texas. Many individual Native Americans, whose tribes are headquartered in other states, reside in Texas. The Texas Historical Commission by law consulted with the three federally ...
Sudanese Armed Forces [3] (de jure) Rapid Support Forces [4] (de facto) The Janjaweed (Arabic: جَنْجَويد, romanized: Janjawīd; also transliterated Janjawid[5]) are an Arab nomad militia group from the Sahel region [6] that operates in Sudan, particularly in Darfur and eastern Chad. [7] They have also been speculated to be active in ...
Beni Halba tribe. Baggara belt. The Beni Halba (Arabic: بني هلبا) is an Arab group located in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. The Beni Halba is one of the major Darfuri Baggara groups, along with the Habbaniya, Rizeigat and Ta’isha, and was granted a large hakura (land grant) in southern Darfur by the sultans of independent Dar ...
Musa Hilal (Arabic: موسى هلال, romanized: Mūsa Hilāl) is a Sudanese Arab tribal chief and militia leader and adviser to the Sudanese Minister of Internal Affairs. [3] His Um Jalul clan exercised tribal leadership of the Arab Mahamid tribe in Darfur. [1] The Mahamid are part of a larger confederation of camel-herding (Abbala) tribes of ...