Qualla: Ed Dubeibat https://qualla.com/ed-dubeibat en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ed Dubeibat https://qualla.com/ed-dubeibat Ed Dubeibat: Introduction https://qualla.com/ed-dubeibat/ The name is a diminutive of a diminutive. In Arabic, a dabba is a hummock, a small flat hill rising out of flat country. A dubeiba is a little one. Dubeibat is the plural. Ed Dubeibat, sitting at 380 meters above sea level in Sudan's South Kordofan, is named for the scatter of low humps that freckle the plain around it: nothing dramatic, just enough to matter if you farm there or move cattle through. For centuries that mattering was quiet. You traded camels in the market, grew groundnuts and sesame and sorghum, and sent children to the one school and adults who got sick to the one hospital. Since April 2023 it has mattered differently.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/j/p/ed-dubeibat-wp/sdjp-ed-dubeibat-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ed Dubeibat: A Junction Town https://qualla.com/ed-dubeibat/ Look at Ed Dubeibat on a road map of Sudan and its significance becomes obvious. Paved roads fan out in five directions: north to Abu Zabad and Fula, south to Dalang and Kadugli, east to Khartoum via Kosti, west to Nyala in Darfur, and northwest to Al-Ubayyid, the largest city in...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/j/p/ed-dubeibat-wp/sdjp-ed-dubeibat-a-junction-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Ed Dubeibat: Three Years of War https://qualla.com/ed-dubeibat/ On 15 April 2023 the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began fighting each other in Khartoum. Within weeks the war had spread to Kordofan. In June 2023, RSF fighters and allied gunmen raided Debibad, as locals call it, and plundered the town; three w...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/j/p/ed-dubeibat-wp/sdjp-ed-dubeibat-water-that-wont-come.mp3 0:06 4 full Ed Dubeibat: Camels and a Prime Minister https://qualla.com/ed-dubeibat/ The market at Ed Dubeibat is famous in Kordofan for camels. It is a trading post for animals as much as it once was for caravans, and groundnuts, sesame, and sorghum still grow around it. The town's most widely known son is Abdalla Hamdok, who served as prime minister during Suda...

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