Qualla: Western Bahr el Ghazal https://qualla.com/western-bahr-el-ghazal 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/9/6/k/western-bahr-el-ghazal-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Western Bahr el Ghazal https://qualla.com/western-bahr-el-ghazal Western Bahr el Ghazal: Introduction https://qualla.com/western-bahr-el-ghazal/ Photo credit Ruslan2010, CC0. In the 1860s and 1870s, the population of this region fell by 75 percent. Not over a century - over a few brutal decades. Western Bahr el Ghazal, a state of 93,900 square kilometers wedged into South Sudan's northwestern corner against the Central African Republic and Sudan's Darfur, was at the center of the great southern slaving raids of 19th-century Mameluk Egypt. The dead numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The survivors fled, died of epidemics, or were carried north in chains. The land still holds the shape of that emptying.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/6/k/western-bahr-el-ghazal-wp/s96k-western-bahr-el-ghazal-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Western Bahr el Ghazal: Dar Fertit, the Land the Slavers Called Theirs https://qualla.com/western-bahr-el-ghazal/ Photo credit Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Raga County, in the west of the state, is the southern part of what was historically called Dar Fertit - a term Arabic-speaking slave-traders used for the non-Muslim peoples whose villages they raided. It is the only part of South Sudan with a significant number of Muslims and Ar...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/6/k/western-bahr-el-ghazal-wp/s96k-western-bahr-el-ghazal-wau-the-state-capital.mp3 0:06 4 full Western Bahr el Ghazal: Between Two Waters https://qualla.com/western-bahr-el-ghazal/ Photo credit Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Lol River crosses the state, draining eastward toward the Nile system. To the north the terrain rises toward the Darfur plateau. To the south it drops toward the equatorial forests of Western Equatoria. This transitional geography - Sahel savanna meeting wetter tropical count...

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