yet to be a formal resolution to the conflict and an uneasy The government’s divide and rule practices in the ‘no war, no peace’ dynamic remained in the Two Areas Two Areas, and the local conflicts they caused, set the during the final years of the NCP regime and since under stage for decades of communal distrust, suspicion and the transitional arrangements. [...] Today, communities are still competing over As hostilities between the SPLM/A-N and the NCP how land should be allocated and used, and also about regime were coming to an end, political divisions how and who should determine local governance and between the former and the SRF and within the SPLM/ 2 Initially referred to as the National Islamic Front (NIF) the regime formed the NCP in 1998. [...] and Deputy Chairman Abdelaziz al-Hilu on the other.6 Through the JPA, the SPLM/A-N (SRF) was granted the In 2017, violent clashes broke out in Blue Nile between right to appoint the governor and cabinet in Blue Nile communities supporting Malik and al-Hilu and led to and the deputy governors in West and South Kordofan. [...] The indigenous communities include the Hilu) would disempower them politically and threaten Gumuz, Hamaj and Kadalo in Roseires, the Ingessana their interests.18 For instance, the Dar Ali and Al-Sira in Tadamon and Bau, the Berta in Geissan and Kurmuk, Hawazma sub-sections have engaged in a violent conflict as well as Uduk, Jumjum, Koma and Ganza in southern with the Kenana, Kawahla and Longon com. [...] from West Africa, who began settling in Blue Nile a hundred years ago.22 A third group has developed from In West Kordofan, the Misseriya were a strong NCP the descendants of the northern Arabized traders who regime ally and made up a large proportion of the PDF arrived in the 1800s and inter-married with the local who fought against the SPLM/A in the 1990s.
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