{"id":34557,"date":"2024-10-17T06:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T03:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=34557"},"modified":"2024-10-17T06:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T03:02:56","slug":"widespread-rejection-of-militias-new-emirate-for-an-arab-group-in-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/widespread-rejection-of-militias-new-emirate-for-an-arab-group-in-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread Rejection of Militia\u2019s New \u201cEmirate\u201d for an Arab Group in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tribal leaders and activists from the Fur tribe in Central Darfur state have strongly rejected the creation of a new \u201cEmirate\u201d for an Arab group that recently arrived from the Central African Republic, warning of demographic changes and the empowerment of new groups at the expense of the original inhabitants.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">RSF-affiliated platforms released a video of a celebration held by the \u201cOulad Baraka and Mubarak\u201d group marking the establishment of the emirate. The RSF commander of the Central Darfur sector, Colonel Mohammed Adam Benjouz, addressed the attendees.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The move sparked anger and calls for intervention to stop what they described as the \u201coccupation\u201d of the original tribes\u2019 lands in the region, where the RSF has maintained control since the end of last year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A senior Fur tribal leader in Central Darfur, who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons, told Sudan Tribune, \u201cWe categorically reject the establishment of a new emirate for Arab tribes in Central Darfur.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He explained that the \u201cOulad Baraka and Mubarak\u201d group, a branch of the Salamat Arab tribe, recently came from the neighboring Central African Republic and has no land in the region. He added that a small number of this group was present before the war in areas south of Zalingei, but their numbers increased significantly after the conflict began, with the RSF bringing in mercenaries from Central Africa and Chad.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He considered this development as the occupation of Fur lands, supported and protected by RSF leadership, which aims to empower its allied groups.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Human rights activist Abbas Abdel-Kabir from Central Darfur told Sudan Tribune that the founding conference of the Oulad Baraka and Mubarak group is part of the ongoing demographic change in Central Darfur and the entire Darfur region. He accused the RSF and its allied Arab tribes of creating parallel tribal leaderships in the territories of original tribes with higher authority than the historical local leaderships.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Tribal leaders and activists from the Fur tribe in Central Darfur state have strongly rejected the creation of a new \u201cEmirate\u201d for an Arab group that recently arrived from the Central African Republic, warning of demographic changes and the empowerment of new groups at the expense of the original inhabitants. RSF-affiliated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34559,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions\/34559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}