SPLM-N al-Hliu and war in the Two Areas

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South Sudan president persuades SPLM-N al-Hliu to refrain from attacking Sudanese army - Sudan Tribune

July 5, 2023 (JUBA) – President Salva Kiir of South Sudan revealed on Tuesday that he has successfully persuaded the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Abdel Aziz Adam Al-Hilu, to cease recent attacks on the Sudanese army. Taking advantage of the ongoing conflict...

sudantribune.com

The South Sudanese president and SPLM leader said he raised the issue with his former comrade Abdel Aziz al-Hilu who confirmed the attacks saying that “certain parties were provoking them, attempting to draw them into the fight”.

“I advised him against falling into an unknown trap. The Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile issue remain unresolved matters from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that necessitate the involvement of the government in Khartoum for further discussions. Fortunately, he listened, and as a result, the fighting in the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains has ceased,” Kiir stressed.

 

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Not related to the Nuba Mountains & Blue Nile conflicts, but it is relevant to the Janjaweed atrocities in Darfur

 

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Article on previous SPLM-N offensives

SPLM-N El Hilu wins terrain in South Kordofan - Dabanga Radio TV Online

DALAMI / DELLING – June 3, 2023 The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North under the leadership...

www.dabangasudan.org

 

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https://www.trtworld.com/africa/darfur-tribes-pledge-allegiance-to-rsf-in-conflict-torn-sudan-13920034

 

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Is history repeating itself in Darfur?

Fifteen years ago, atrocities in Darfur caused an international outcry. Why do things seem different today?

www.aljazeera.com

Rebel mobilisation in southern Sudan raises fears of conflict spreading

Residents of Sudan's South Kordofan State reported mobilisation by a large rebel force on Thursday, raising fear that internal conflict could spread in the country's southern regions.

www.reuters.com

On the issue of the Nuba, their actions are entirely justified, but it seems that it would be better if they opted to solidify their defences while the SAF and RSF fight each other.

 

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Some snippets from the history of the Nuba; their interactions with Riverine and Baggara Arabs; and why they continue to fight for their lands.

Violence against the Nuba further escalated during the Mahdiya era, with far-reaching ramifications—territorially, socioeconomically and politically. At the outset, the Mahdiyya movement launched a direct and forcible mobilization of the Nuba into the Jihadiyya (the Mahdist armies) to support its troops in Omdurman (Sagar 1922, 140). In the process, it gathered a large number of recruits, mostly by force, often associated with mass atrocities. Even children did not escape the massacres “where they were seized by the feet and their brains dashed to pieces on the rock” (Wingate 1892: 98–9, quoted in Salih 1982, 37). The lucky ones were taken as captives, and there was a slave market in al-Obeid where women and children, mostly Nuba, were sold.

Moreover, land grabbing was at its peak through the Mechanized Rain-Fed Farming Schemes in the region (see Bathanni 1986; Saeed 1980). As a result, the Nuba traditional farmers became strangers in their own land, with many forced to migrate to urban areas in search of new means of livelihood in central and northern Sudan. In those urban centres, however, the Nuba and other migrants faced other forms of marginalization: a brutal and forced deportation campaign, known locally as Kasha, was launched in Khartoum against all those without identification cards or employment on the pretext that they were a threat to public security and order. They were taken against their will to the area of their respective ethnic origins or otherwise to agricultural schemes in central Sudan as forced labor. According to Kadouf (2001, 51) “the Nuba, and all those with obvious African features, were the main target. The army was deployed in the streets of Khartoum to implement the decree […] the kasha was performed in a brutally humiliating and inhumane way.”

By the early 1990s, some 60 000–70 000 Nuba had been killed in government military operations—brutal campaigns virtually invisible to the outside world (Meyer 2005, 26).

Source: Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Guma Kunda Komey (2016)

Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan

www.cmi.no

There are no Nuba on this forum and I felt compelled to provide much needed context for their justified actions.

I did not provide a worthy defence of these incredibly brave, resilient people -- my fellow Nilo-Saharans and the brothers in arms of my people.