Qualla: West Kordofan https://qualla.com/west-kordofan 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/h/h/west-kordofan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: West Kordofan https://qualla.com/west-kordofan West Kordofan: Introduction https://qualla.com/west-kordofan/ Photo credit Aziz rudwan, CC BY-SA 4.0. West Kordofan has been invented and erased and invented again. The state was created in 1994. Abolished in 2005. Recreated in 2013. Each redrawing of the map reflected what Sudanese politicians wanted the state's 1.3 million people to be: part of this administrative unit or that, tied to this peace agreement or the next, reckoned with a particular ethnic arithmetic in Khartoum. Meanwhile, on the ground, the Hamar and Misseriya tribes grazed cattle, farmers grew sorghum, oil pipelines ran northeast to Port Sudan, and now, since 2023, almost the entire state has passed under the control of the Rapid Support Forces.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/h/h/west-kordofan-wp/sdhh-west-kordofan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full West Kordofan: Oil, Cattle, and Contested Borders https://qualla.com/west-kordofan/ Photo credit Aziz rudwan, CC BY-SA 4.0. West Kordofan covers 111,373 square kilometers - larger than some European countries - in central-western Sudan, bridging the Sahel transition zone between the Sahara to the north and the savannas further south. Al-Fulah is the state capital. The state's historic identity is shap...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/h/h/west-kordofan-wp/sdhh-west-kordofan-oil-cattle-and-contested-borders.mp3 0:06 2 full West Kordofan: A State Abolished https://qualla.com/west-kordofan/ Photo credit Aziz rudwan, CC BY-SA 4.0. In August 2005, following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed at Naivasha in Kenya that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War, West Kordofan was abolished. The protocol required that Southern Kordofan's boundaries match the old provincial lines, which meant West Kordofan had t...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/h/h/west-kordofan-wp/sdhh-west-kordofan-a-state-abolished.mp3 0:06 3 full West Kordofan: Ethnic Economics https://qualla.com/west-kordofan/ Photo credit Aziz rudwan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The state's population is a dense weave of different peoples. The Misseriya Arabs are pastoral cattle-herders whose migrations south into what is now South Sudan have historically brought them into conflict with the Dinka Ngok of Abyei. The Hamar - whose name is given to the trib...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/h/h/west-kordofan-wp/sdhh-west-kordofan-ethnic-economics.mp3 0:06 4 full West Kordofan: The RSF Takes the State https://qualla.com/west-kordofan/ Photo credit Aziz rudwan, CC BY-SA 4.0. When the current civil war began on 15 April 2023, West Kordofan's location - on the road between Darfur and Khartoum, rich in oil, sparsely defended - made it a strategic prize. On 25 April 2023, the RSF seized Wad Banda. For the first four months, other parts of the state remai...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/h/h/west-kordofan-wp/sdhh-west-kordofan-the-rsf-takes-the-state.mp3 0:06 5 full West Kordofan: What a State Becomes https://qualla.com/west-kordofan/ Photo credit Aziz rudwan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The people of West Kordofan are living through what is now their fourth major political reconfiguration in thirty years - first the 1994 creation of the state, then the 2005 abolition, then the 2013 reestablishment, and now the 2023-onward fracturing under RSF control. The distin...

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