The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
Since it seized power in Khartoum the Government has embarked on policy of depopulating the Nuba Mountains region by expanding on mechanized farming projects at the expense of indigenous farmers. Many Nuba farmers in Hiban, Delemi and other productive areas in the eastern parts of the Nuba Mountains were evicted from their land and they became absentee landlords.
The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
By Dr Hunud A Kadouf
“The problem for the Jallaba was that they believed in their money rather than anything else, otherwise they would have evaluated that things were no longer the same”. Kuwa, after he won a regional parliamentary seat against the Jallaba of Kadugli- his home town-during Nimeiri's era. In 'The story of Yousif Kuwa Mekki in his own words', in Suleiman M Rahhal (ed.), The Right to be Nuba, (2001).
The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
The United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Sudan wrote on 14th May 2001 to the Ambassadors of several countries listed below, urging them to intervene directly on the matter of humanitarian access after he has exhausted all the efforts to gain access to the Nuba Mountains. He wrote this letter.