The Sultanate of Darfur was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It existed from the 16th century to 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, and was re-established aga
Darfur is a region of western Sudan covering 493,180 square kilometers. It consists largely of a semi-desert plateau, with the volcanic Marrah Mountains in its center, and is divided into five federal
Sultanate of Darfur
…again from 1898 to 1916, until it was conquered by the British. At its peak in the late-18th and early-19th century it stretched all the way from Darfur in the west to Kordofan and the western banks of the White Nile in the east. The region of Darfur is part of the wider bioregion of Sudanian savanna…
Deriba Crater is at the highest point of the Marrah Mountains
Overland trucks en route near Jebel Marra, 2019
Camp of Darfuris internally displaced by the War in Darfur.