The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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Twenty years ago, the paramount chief of the Um Jalul, Darfur’s most traditional nomads, told a rare foreign visitor how the world of the Abbala, the Arab camel herders of Darfur, was dying. To the north of Sheikh Hilal Mohamed Abdalla’s encampment in the village of Aamo, the desert pastures had bloomed that season for the first time in seven years, ending an 18-month famine that had taken 100,000 lives.
But to the south, as the pressure on resources increased, the set…
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