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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]
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.
Oct 21, 2021 · Nomadic breeders and farmers, the Beja, who boast a history dating back to Kush -- grandson of Noah according to the Bible -- live 90% in rural areas in huts near the cities of Gedaref, Kessala...
Sep 1, 2022 · There is a continuous escalation in eastern Sudan, between the central government in Khartoum and the Beja tribes, that threaten to declare a separate state if their demands will not be implemented. On October 4, 2021, the leader of the Beja Supreme Council and the Independent Amauds, Major General Othman al-Baquer, vowed that the council was ...
Dec 4, 2022 · Noureddine Atta Al-Mawla Jabar's new album, Beja Power!, has been dubbed a soundtrack of Sudan's recent revolution.
Most Beja now live in shantytowns outside the urban centres, having lost their traditional livelihoods after severe droughts in the 1980s killed off their cattle. Before representation was regulated through the ESPA, Beja representation in government was scarce.
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Jul 6, 2022 · Sudan’s now-deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir, who came to power following a military coup in 1989, waged an Arabisation campaign that sought to erase the Bejas’ culture and deny them...
