Ed Daein

Ed Daein lies in the savanna of southeastern Darfur, in the country of the Rizeigat. This Arabic-speaking people belong to the cattle-keeping Baggara communities of the western Sudan. The settlement grew in association with the Rizeigat during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in a region where grazing lands extend between Darfur and the country farther south. Its history is closely bound to the movements and leadership of these pastoral communities.