Country: Sudan
Group: Nuba
Date: 04/06/2021
Team: Ethan Pelland (lead), Thomas Chia, Maya Shrikant, Mahad Alam
These displacement campaigns have been enforced through violence from both the Sudanese State and Islamist Militias. The Baggara, the traditional rivals of the Nuba who live in southern Kordofan, have been close allies to central power in Sudan since the nineteenth century (Minority Rights, 2018). Starting in the 1980s, Baggara militias were armed and integrated into the Sudanese Armed Forces. With state backing and weaponry, they launched repeated attacks on Nuban villages in an effort to eradicate or drive them out of the country (Minority Rights, 2018). In the 1990s, many Nuba children were deported and almost all males of the Nuba Timu group were killed (Minority Rights,2018). Nuba who did not flee were instead forced to work on plantations in their former communities. State campaigns to displace the Nuba largely ceased when a ceasefire was negotiated by the United States, however discrimination by the government and violence from militants continues to impact their communities.
There is clear evidence that the Nuba in Sudan have experienced forced displacement in Sudan. Since Sudan’s independence, the Nuba have faced repeated efforts by the Sudanese government to appropriate their historical lands in the Nuba Mountains. Due to the availability of information on the status of the Nuba in Sudan, the data quality can be assessed as a 2.
Sources
- Minority Rights Group (2018). Nuba-Sudan. https://minorityrights.org/minorities/nuba/