Al Zorg

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Al Zorg, also known as Al Zurq, El Zurug and Zurug, is a planned village and paramilitary base in North Darfur, Sudan. It is a key military site in the region as it is the only military base located near Sudan's border with Libya and Chad and the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher. Al Zorg was created by the Rapid Support Forces near the end of the Darfur Conflict around 2017 [The Darfur "conflict" did not end "around 2017." See, e.g., https://sudanreeves.org/category/briefs-advocacy-2018/page/2/ . According to Juma Dagalo, the mayor of the town and the uncle of Hemedti, the land rightfully belongs to the Mahariya because it was gifted to them by the British, and that the people of his ethnic group wanted to settle down. This claim of empty land has been disputed by several ethnic groups including the Zaghawa, who claim that the RSF used similar tactics as the Janjaweed to empty the land. The Zaghawa have claimed that clashes between Arab settlers in the region had been going on since 1997. However, in 2017, Omar al Bashir's government enabled the RSF to take control of the area and bring Arab settlers, as well as to benefit from its strategic location and resources. The RSF took control of water plants and forced over 140,000 people out of their homes to settle elsewhere, changing the town's name to from Dogi, a name from the language of the Fur, to Al Zorg. Al Zorg has been a key point of conflict during the current civil war because it is a supply line for the RSF.