it used militias in southern Sudan to remove any obstacles to oil drilling. Musa Hilal, sheikh of the Um Jalloul tribe, has a history of instigating fights against the Fur; now the U.S. State ...

He is a member of the Fur tribe, one of the African ethnic groups from the Darfur region of Sudan who were targeted in mass killings and acts of sexual violence in the early to mid 2000s.

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people ... including the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit peoples in western Sudan. During his regime, Bashir enforced ...