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Darfur   /dˌɑfˈur/   Listen
Darfur

noun
1.
An impoverished region of western Sudan.





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"Darfur" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the Sudanese military have driven hundreds of thousands of Darfur residents into Chad; Chad remains an important mediator in the Sudanese civil conflict, reducing tensions with Sudan arising from cross-border banditry; Chadian Aozou rebels reside in southern Libya; only Nigeria ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... to the Sahara, and as long from north to south. The whole country was in a state of unrest. The Khedive had carried on an unsuccessful war against the Christian King of Abyssinia, and the Mohammedan states of Kordofan and Darfur were in revolt against Egypt. There half-savage Beduin tribes were scattered about over the deserts, and there some of the worst slave-dealers ...
— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin


Words linked to "Darfur" :   dominion, Sudan, Soudan, territorial dominion, district, territory, Republic of the Sudan


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