April 16, 2020 (Zalengei) Leaders of the displaced people in the camps of Zalingei, in central Darfur, have demanded halt of land registeration in Hilla Jedo area, that falls under the jursdiction of Abtta administrative unit in Zalingei locality, they also rejected the governor’s decision to register all lands in the state.
Governor of Central Darfur, Major General Najmuddin Karar,had issued a decision ten days ago calling for registeration of illegal lands in the state, however, he formed a committee tasked with listing and registering all lands in the state, as well as interviewing individuals who have land problems so as to find settlement to their land issues.
Al-Shafei Abdul Karim, Deputy General Coordinator of the IDPs and Refugee told Darfur 24, that IDPs are demanding the state government to postpone the decision of land registration for the time being .
” We urge the government to suspend the land registration process currently taking place in the Hilla Jedo area and withdraw the land documents that were given to people who were not indigenous to the area” Added Al-Shafei Abdul Karim.
It’s worth noting that Hilla Gedo is considered a sacred area for the Fur tribe ,because of the presence of the largest graves of clerics in it, and it was the only one where rituals were practiced by local clerics known as Foggara