Fellata

This policy had earmarked 37% of agrarian land to the Nuba, 45% to Arab tribes and 18 % to Fellata Housa and Bergo.

In many locations, including Damazin, witnesses saw Popular Defense Forces (PDF), an auxiliary force drawn from Fellata and other nomadic ethnic groups whose members Sudan is actively recruiting, leaders who were interviewed told Human Rights Watch.

The SUDO report also accuses the government of co-opting and arming some IDPs, which meant that minor disputes can escalate into gun fights among the camp's 30 blocks, which are inhabited mostly by the Fur, Tunjur, Berti, Zaghawa, Gimer, Fellata and Hawara ethnic groups.

They were supported by the Fellata [an ethnic group in Blue Nile], who captured some of the civilians and slaughtered people,' said Asma, who witnessed the outbreak of conflict in the town of Um Darfa.

"They were supported by the Fellata (an ethnic group in Blue Nile), who captured some of the civilians and slaughtered people," the refugee said adding, "It's all because we are black." The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has opened a new camp in western Ethiopia as hostilities in Sudan's Blue Nile state continue to drive more refugees to the Horn of Africa nation.

Different sources report conflictingly that the kidnappers are either former janjaweed of the Abbala tribe, Fellata tribesmen or also a group calling itself "Falcons for the Liberation of Africa." Speaking to UN radio network Miraya FM via satellite phone, one of the kidnappers said that the security authority in Western Darfur State gave them a 72 hour ultimatum to release the hostages otherwise force will be used against.