Qualla: Kutum https://qualla.com/kutum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/9/8/kutum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kutum https://qualla.com/kutum Kutum: Introduction https://qualla.com/kutum/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. The town sits in a dry riverbed, which is also its name. Kutum means wadi in local usage, the Arabic word for the seasonal watercourses that cut through North Darfur and come to brief life during the summer rains. 120 kilometers northwest of Al-Fashir, where the Marrah Mountains begin giving way to the Tagabo Hills, Kutum has a Monday market, a Thursday market, and a population built from three peoples who were here long before anyone thought of drawing borders.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/9/8/kutum-wp/sd98-kutum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kutum: Market Days https://qualla.com/kutum/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. The market runs twice a week, along the wadi and next to the little botanical garden that predates most of the town's current troubles. Traders bring goods from El-Fashir, livestock from the pastoralist camps surrounding the town, and grain from the farms worked by the Fur. Aroun...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/9/8/kutum-wp/sd98-kutum-market-days.mp3 0:06 2 full Kutum: Three Peoples, One Wadi https://qualla.com/kutum/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. Kutum's population, about 45,000 before the most recent wars, has always been mostly non-Arab: Fur, the people who gave Darfur its name, along with smaller Tunjur and Berti communities. The Fur have farmed the slopes around the Marrah Mountains and the wadis of North Darfur for m...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/9/8/kutum-wp/sd98-kutum-three-peoples-one-wadi.mp3 0:06 3 full Kutum: When War Arrived https://qualla.com/kutum/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. During the War in Darfur, which began in 2003, Kutum's non-Arab residents found themselves associated, by government rhetoric, with the rebel groups then fighting the Bashir regime. In August 2003, Sudan Liberation Army fighters briefly took the town. Janjaweed militias and Sudan...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/9/8/kutum-wp/sd98-kutum-when-war-arrived.mp3 0:06 4 full Kutum: Kassab Camp https://qualla.com/kutum/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. Kassab sits just north of Kutum. For years it was the refuge of families from Fur villages that had been destroyed, and though attacks dropped in the late 2010s and thousands returned home in 2018, gunmen kept coming back. The war in Darfur was officially declared over in 2020, b...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/9/8/kutum-wp/sd98-kutum-kassab-camp.mp3 0:06 5 full Kutum: The Latest Chapter https://qualla.com/kutum/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. In June 2023, two months into Sudan's new civil war, the Battle of Kutum ended with the Rapid Support Forces capturing the town. Hemedti, the RSF commander, had already threatened in March 2023 to dismantle the IDP camps across Sudan, Kassab among them. That is now happening. Kut...

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