The Zaghawa people, also called Beri or Zakhawa, are an ethnic group primarily residing in southwestern Libya, northeastern Chad, and western Sudan, including...
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Zaghawa is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak...
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Zaghawa may refer to: Zaghawa people Zaghawa language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Zaghawa. If an internal link led...
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Caste systems in Africa (section Zaghawa people)
Darfur. The Zaghawa are mentioned in classical Arabic language texts by Islamic historians and geographers. The century in which the Zaghawa people adopted...
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Islamic literature, the earliest mention as the Toubou people is perhaps that along with the Zaghawa people in an 8th-century text by Arabic scholar Ibn Qutaybah...
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Fulani and a concubine of his father. In early 1991, non-Arabs of the Zaghawa people of Sudan attested that they were victims of an intensifying Arab apartheid...
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Minni Minnawi (category Zaghawa people)
Sudanese people. Minnawi opposed the Sudan government's genocidal agenda, which was exercised by Omar al-Bashir against the Zaghawa people and other...
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Ahmed Abkar Barqo Abdel-Rahman (category Zaghawa people)
of the Zaghawa people and a member of parliament, he was reportedly killed by the Rapid Support Forces in a raid on his house in Nyala. "Zaghawa tribe...
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Gibril Ibrahim (category Zaghawa people)
Gibril Ibrahim Mohammed (Arabic: جبريل إبراهيم محمد, born 1 January 1955), often spelled Jibril, is a Sudanese politician. He is the leader of the Justice...
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The RSF attacked six villages inhabited by the Zaghawa people in North Darfur, killing at least 15 people. The SAF launched a major offensive to push out...
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Mahamat Déby (category Zaghawa people)
Mahamat Déby is polygamous and has three wives. His first wife is an ethnic Zaghawa woman. In 2010, Déby married his second wife, a Central African woman and...
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Moussa Faki (category Zaghawa people)
member of the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), belongs to the Zaghawa ethnic group, the same group as the late President Idriss Déby. On 6 February...
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and land usage were also a factor. Beginning in 1991 elders of the Zaghawa people of Sudan complained that they were victims of an intensifying Arab apartheid...
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Brahim Déby (category Zaghawa people)
Brahim Déby Itno (Arabic: إبراهيم ديبي إتنو Ibrahīm Daybī Itnū, 6 June 1980 – 2 July 2007) was the son of Idriss Déby, the former president of Chad. Brahim...
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Idriss Déby (category Zaghawa people)
longest-serving president. Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ranking commander of President Hissène Habré's military...
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Khalil Ibrahim (category Zaghawa people)
Ibrahim was born in Sudan in 1957. Ibrahim was from the Koba branch of the Zaghawa ethnic group, which is located mainly in Sudan, with a minority on the...
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Yaya Dillo Djérou (category Zaghawa people)
Déby admitted that there were desertions in the army, especially by the Zaghawa, the President's ethnic group. These deserters were under the leadership...
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Darfur genocide (category Genocide of indigenous peoples in Africa)
killing of ethnic Darfuri people during the War in Darfur. The genocide, which was carried out against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, led the...
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its client states or provinces. In contrast to the neighboring Toubou or Zaghawa pastoralists, Kanuri groups have traditionally been sedentary, engaging...
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Abakar Abdelkerim Daoud (category Zaghawa people)
He is a member of the Zaghawa people from the Wadi Fira region and is nicknamed Kirekeyno (“the one who does not flee”, in Zaghawa). He fought alongside...
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Abdallah Banda (category Zaghawa people)
in or around 1963 in Wai, Dar Kobe, North Darfur. He is a member of the Zaghawa tribe. On the evening of 29 September 2007, groups led by Banda and Jerbo...
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Kabka Sultanate (category Zaghawa people)
the Sultanate of Kabka and the Kabka Sultanate of Tundubay, is a remote Zaghawa-populated country subdivision on the Sudanese frontier within Chad. It...
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discriminates on the basis of race." Beginning in 1991, elders of the Zaghawa people of Sudan complained that they were victims of an intensifying Arab apartheid...
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Halima Bashir (category Zaghawa people)
Sudan and travelled to the United Kingdom to claim asylum, she had paid a people trafficker with jewellery. While in the UK, she protested the country's...
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Darfur: the Fur, the Zaghawa, and the Masalit, among whom were the leaders Abdul Wahid al-Nur of the Fur and Minni Minnawi of the Zaghawa. General Omar al-Bashir...
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deplored the killing. Ahmed Abkar Barqo Abdel-Rahman a member of the Zaghawa people and a member of parliament, was reportedly killed by the RSF in a raid...
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Saleh Jerbo (category Zaghawa people)
on 1 January 1977 in Shagag Karo, North Darfur. He was a member of the Zaghawa tribe. On the evening of 29 September 2007, groups led by Banda and Jerbo...
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Daoud Hari (category Zaghawa people)
began work on his book to help bring further attention to the plight of his people and country. In 2008, he published his account under the title The Translator:...
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Timane Erdimi (category Zaghawa people)
which had 800 soldiers in early 2008. He is a member of the ethnic group Zaghawa and nephew of the Chadian President Idriss Déby. An international arrest...
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Abbo Nassour (category Zaghawa people)
returned to the political limelight 1969–1975. Abbo Nassour was born in a Zaghawa family. He was the nephew of Sultan Abderrahmane of Kapka and at the same...
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