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Beja people. The Beja people (Arabic: البجا, Beja: Oobja, Tigre: በጃ) are a Cushitic ethnic group [5] native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea. [1] They are descended from peoples who have inhabited the area since 4000 BC or earlier, [1] although ...
Nov 8, 2023 · The Beja people are a distinct social and cultural ethnic group in Sudan and Egypt that have suffered from neglect and marginalisation. Members of the Beja ethnic group of eastern Sudan raise the flag of the Beja Congress political group as they demonstrate in Suakin on October 9, 2021. ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP. Yousef M. Sharqawi.
Uncertain data indicates there may be as many as 2,300,000 people total who speak the Beja language and identify themselves as Beja. Our figures estimate Beja speakers at about 107,000 in Eritrea, about 60,000 in Egypt and 2,134,000 in Sudan. It appears there are approximately 99,000 Beni-Amer speakers of Tigre.
Beja, nomadic people grouped into tribes and occupying mountain country between the Red Sea and the Nile and Atbara rivers from the latitude of Aswān southeastward to the Eritrean Plateau—that is, from southeastern Egypt through Sudan and into Eritrea. Numbering about 1.9 million in the early 21st.
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Oct 21, 2021 · In 2018, when Sudan rose up against its overthrown autocrat the following year, the Beja -- about 4.5 million or one in ten Sudanese according to the last census conducted in 2008 -- were among ...
Our figures estimate Beja speakers at about 107,000 in Eritrea, about 60,000 in Egypt and 2,134,000 in Sudan. It appears there are approximately 99,000 Beni-Amer speakers of Tigre. The total number of all Beja people in Eritrea speaking Beja or Tigre appears to be about 206,000. Some estimates are higher than 500,000.
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Dec 20, 2017 · The Beja are deemed to have descended from people who lived in the area since at least 4000 BC. 1898 A group of three Bisharin Arabs possibly at Aswan, Egypt. Nowadays, most Beja people live in the Sudanese states of Red Sea around Port Sudan, River Nile, or Kassala among others.
