- The
Rizeigat (also
spelled Rizigat, Rezeigat, and in
standard Arabic, Rizayqat) are a
Muslim and an Arab
tribe of the
nomadic Baggara people predominantly...
-
between Maalia,
Rizeigat, Messiria,
Salamat and Bani
Hussein in
Darfur and West Kordofan.
Fighting in 2008
between the
Misseriya and the
Rizeigat tribes claimed...
- are the
westernmost representation.
Baggara tribes in
Sudan include: the
Rizeigat, Ta’isha, Beni Halba, Habbaniya, Salamat, Messiria, Tarjam, and Beni Hussein...
- and
Rashaida who
speak Hejazi Arabic. A few Arab
Bedouin of the
northern Rizeigat speak Sudanese Arabic and
share the same
culture as the
Sudanese Arabs...
-
Juhaynah tribe of the
Arabian peninsula and it is a
common way to
distinguish Rizeigat who herd
camels in
Northern Darfur and
those who herd cows in Southern...
- the
paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). A
Janjaweed leader from the
Rizeigat tribe in Darfur, he was the
Deputy head of the
Transitional Military Council...
- The city was
founded by
Barsham (Haskanet) bin Abd al-Hamid, and the
Rizeigat tribe to
which Madboo bin Ali bin
Barsham belonged,
settled in the eighteenth...
- of Friday, 27
March 1987, when the
Muraheleen militia (mainly from the
Rizeigat tribe)
attacked a
church where 25
Dinkas had
gathered for
evening prayers...
- were
distributed directly to
members of
allied tribes,
specifically the
Rizeigat and the
Misseriya Humr,
through native administrative structures and leaders...
- al-Maraheel (Arabic: المراحيل), were
tribal militias primarily composed of
Rizeigat and
Messiria tribes from
western Sudan. They were
armed since 1983 by successive...
