Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap
August 20th, 2004“Darfur’s landscapes have a cruel beauty, and few are more unyielding than the nomadic encampment of Aamo. It is in a stony wasteland on a plain ringed by mountains formed from ancient volcanic cores. A distant sweep of pink sand marks the course of a seasonal river, Wadi Kutum. Many years ago, I stayed there as a guest of the nazir (’paramount chief’) of a clan of Arab nomads known as the Jalul.”
Alex de Waal writes in the London Review of Books, August 2004
