Qualla: South Kordofan https://qualla.com/south-kordofan 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: South Kordofan https://qualla.com/south-kordofan South Kordofan: Introduction https://qualla.com/south-kordofan/ The Nuba Mountains rise unexpectedly from the plains of central Sudan, a scatter of jebels and escarpments where dozens of languages and Indigenous traditions have survived for centuries despite invasion, Islamization campaigns, and civil war. This is the heart of South Kordofan - one of Sudan's eighteen states, covering 158,355 square kilometers and home to roughly 2.1 million people as of 2018 - and it has been one of the most fought-over pieces of ground in the whole region. When South Sudan broke away in 2011, South Kordofan and its Nuba population were left on the wrong side of the new border, still citizens of Sudan, still targeted by a government whose war against them never really ended.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/v/r/south-kordofan-wp/s9vr-south-kordofan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full South Kordofan: The Mountains and Their People https://qualla.com/south-kordofan/ The Nuba Mountains are a geological and cultural island. Isolated by surrounding plains from the Arab-dominated north, the Nuba peoples developed a mosaic of languages and customs - Heiban, Moro, Otoro, Koalib, Tira, and dozens more - that linguists classify across three differen...

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