Qualla: Wad Banda https://qualla.com/wad-banda 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: Wad Banda https://qualla.com/wad-banda Wad Banda: Introduction https://qualla.com/wad-banda/ Wad Banda is a place you might never have heard of unless you were tracking the forward edge of Sudan's successive wars. It sits in West Kordofan, roughly halfway between the Darfur region to its west and Khartoum to its east, and for the past two decades it has been where conflicts spilling out of Darfur have first touched the rest of Sudan. The names in its chronology are familiar to readers who follow the country's news - JEM, RSF, Khalil Ibrahim, Janjaweed - but the people of Wad Banda are the ones who have lived through what those names have meant on the ground.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/7/f/wad-banda-wp/sd7f-wad-banda-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wad Banda: Where West Kordofan Meets Darfur https://qualla.com/wad-banda/ West Kordofan as a state has a complicated history. It existed, then was merged with North Kordofan in 2005, then was recreated in 2013, a product of the central government's constant rearrangement of the political map in response to the needs of ethnic and tribal politics. Wad B...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/7/f/wad-banda-wp/sd7f-wad-banda-where-west-kordofan-meets-darfur.mp3 0:06 2 full Wad Banda: First Raids from Darfur https://qualla.com/wad-banda/ In April 2004, as the Darfur war was beginning to intensify, a rebel group from Darfur conducted a raid in Wad Banda locality. The governor of Western Darfur described satellite phones being seized and an armed patrol from Wad Banda pursuing the attackers into a different area wh...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/7/f/wad-banda-wp/sd7f-wad-banda-first-raids-from-darfur.mp3 0:06 3 full Wad Banda: The Death of Khalil Ibrahim https://qualla.com/wad-banda/ On 25 December 2011, during the conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan Revolutionary Front, JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim was killed along with thirty of his fighters in an action west of Wad Banda. Sudanese state media reported he ha...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/7/f/wad-banda-wp/sd7f-wad-banda-the-death-of-khalil-ibrahim.mp3 0:06 4 full Wad Banda: Everyday Conflict https://qualla.com/wad-banda/ Not every violent episode in Wad Banda has involved rebels. In March 2015, tribal clashes between the Shanabla and the Gemesat in the Um Girenat area of the locality left several people injured. A police officer who intervened was killed. The police came under fire themselves and...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/7/f/wad-banda-wp/sd7f-wad-banda-everyday-conflict.mp3 0:06 5 full Wad Banda: Under the RSF https://qualla.com/wad-banda/ When the current civil war erupted on 15 April 2023, Wad Banda was again on the front line. Ten days into the fighting, on 25 April 2023, clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the town. The RSF took control and held it as part of the ...

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