A drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region killed 67 people and injured dozens recently.
About Darfur Region:
Darfur is a region in western Sudan.
It lies between Kordofan to the east and Wadai to the west and extended southward to the Al-Ghazāl (Gazelle) River and northward to the Libyan Desert.
It consists of an immense rolling plain that has an area of approximately 440,000 sq.km.
The volcanic highlands of the Marrah Mountains dominate the central part of this plain.
It was an independent sultanate until annexed by Sudan in 1916.
The name “Darfur” is derived from “dar fur,” meaning “the land of the Fur” in Arabic.
Population:
The Fur tribe once ruled the Islamic Sultanate of Darfur until the killing in 1916 of the last Sultan of Darfur.
It is home to approximately 80 tribes and ethnic groups, encompassing both nomadic and sedentary communities.
Arabs have long constituted the majority of the population in the northern part of Darfur, while Arabs and Fur have predominated in the southern portion.
Other ethnic groups have included the Beja, Zaghawa, Nubian, and Daju peoples.
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