Tag Archives: Zalingi

Photo 76 – UBB-HAA-592

A Fur woman is standing with her baby on the alluvial soils of wadi Aribo. Note the acacia albida trees  (Fur: “kurul”, Arabic: “haraz”) in the background. The acacia albida trees are a characteristic feature of the lower wadis of Western Darfur. During the dry season the pods of the acacia albida provide nutritious food for the cattle of the Baggara Arab nomads who in this season camp on the harvested fields under the trees. The dung from the cattle serves to fertilize the fields of the Fur farmers who cultivate them in the rainy season. In the rainy season the acacia albida trees shed their leaves. This photo is from the dry season.

Wadi Aribo, near Zalingi, Western Darfur.

Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1966

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Photo 91 – UBB-HAA-393

A group of Jumala Arab nomads from Northern Darfur migrating through the Fur area of Western Darfur, after the Fur have harvested their fields. In the 1960s and 1970s relations between the Fur and Arab groups, like the Baggara and Jumala, were quite peaceful. From the 1980s tensions were growing, and from the turn of the millenium the Baggarta and Jumala Arabs have been very active in the Janjaweed militias fighting the Fur farmers.

Zalingi area, Western Darfur.

Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1966

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Photo 101 – UBB-HAA-528

On weekly market days, Fur farmers exchange agricultural products for the nomads’ milk products (e.g. sour milk and butter), and petty traders’ imported goods (e.g. sugar, tea, salt, cloth, shoes).

Zalingi market, Western Darfur.

Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1966.

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