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45-539: TMO may refer to: T-Mobile International AG , a German telecommunication company The Muslim Observer , a weekly newspaper in Michigan, United States Table Mountain Observatory , California Tenant management organisation , an organisation set up under United Kingdom law Thermo Electron , former NYSE ticker Thermo Fisher Scientific , American firm which trades on

90-561: A Republican one. The article calls on the Muslim community to recognize the importance of primaries. The newspaper relies largely on reprinted articles that are relevant to Muslims—with some bright spots like Sumayyah Meehan, a columnist who reports from Kuwait; another bright spot is Nilofar Suhrawardy, an Indian reporter who consistently reports on serious issues in India. Some good articles have been written by Adil James, in Michigan, especially one on

135-409: A state of humanitarian emergency and genocide since 2003. The factors include religious and ethnic rivalry, and the rivalry between farmers and herders. The first historical mention of the word Fur occurs in 1664 in the account by J. M. Vansleb , a German traveler, of a visit to Egypt (Petermann (1862-3). Mitteilungen, Erganzungsband II). It is claimed that, like sūdān , fūr means "blacks", and

180-600: Is considered the founder of the Keira dynasty . Darfur became a great power of the Sahel under the Keira dynasty, expanding its borders as far east as the Atbarah River and attracting immigrants from Bornu and Bagirmi . During the mid-18th century conflict between rival factions wracked the country, and external war pitted Darfur against Sennar and Wadai . In 1875, the weakened kingdom

225-515: Is covered with plains and low hills of sandy soils , known as goz , and sandstone hills. In many places the goz is waterless and can only be inhabited where there are water reservoirs or deep boreholes . While dry, goz may also support rich pasture and arable land . To the north the goz is overtaken by the desert sands of the Sahara . A second feature are the wadis , which range from seasonal watercourses that flood only occasionally during

270-417: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Muslim Observer It reaches all 50 United States and its website, muslimobserver.com , is visited by thousands of people every day. The newspaper claims to have a circulation of 20,000. The Muslim Observer (printed newspaper) is mostly distributed free of charge to the mosques and cultural centers in

315-678: Is the editor-in-chief of The Muslim Observer . He is also the director of the Islamic Society of Nevada, as well as the director of the Muslim Electorates Council of America. It has endorsed Ron Paul for the Michigan primary in Jan 2008, [1] citing his views on the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act. However, in the same article, it states that Democratic government will be "less tretcherous" than

360-613: The Fur ') is a region of western Sudan . Dār is an Arabic word meaning "home [of]" – the region was named Dardaju (Arabic: دار داجو , romanized:  Dār Dājū ) while ruled by the Daju , who migrated from Meroë c.  350 AD , and it was renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر , romanized:  Dār Tunjur ) when the Tunjur ruled the area. Darfur was an independent sultanate for several hundred years until 1874, when it fell to

405-479: The Marrah Mountains and Daju Hills , volcanic plugs created by a massif , that rise up to a peak at Deriba crater where there is a small area of temperate climate , high rainfall and permanent springs of water. Remote sensing has detected the imprint of a vast underground lake under Darfur. The potential water deposits are estimated at 49,500 km (19,110 sq mi). The lake, during epochs when

450-499: The wet season to large wadis that flood for most of the rains and flow from western Darfur hundreds of kilometres west to Lake Chad . Many wadis have pans of alluvium with rich heavy soil that are also difficult to cultivate. Western Darfur is dominated by the third feature, basement rock , sometimes covered with a thin layer of sandy soil. Basement rock is too infertile to be farmed, but provides sporadic forest cover that can be grazed by animals. The fourth and final feature are

495-662: The Government of Sudan over the withdrawal of UNAMID , the peacekeeping force , which is the largest in the world. Other UN agencies (such as the WFP ) might exit. During the existence of the Calais Jungle refugee camp, Darfur was listed as a major source of the camp's inhabitants. The Government of Sudan and the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi signed a Darfur Peace Agreement in 2006. Only one rebel group,

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540-498: The Muslim Media News Service, a subscription news service with national and international reporters. So far, TMO and Muslim Media News Service are the only branches of MMN. MMN was started primarily as a vehicle for an unsuccessful initial public offering (IPO) that the company tried to go through with in 2005, but that failed to receive enough contributions to succeed. MMN was conceived by TMO publisher Dr. AS Nakadar as

585-691: The NYSE as TMO Tortugas Mountain Observatory , New Mexico, USA Television Match Official , a rugby official who assists the referee if uncertain to make a decision Traffic Management Order, an order made by a United Kingdom local authority under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 Trainman Operated Crossing, a type of level crossing Transition-Metal Oxide (see also Surface properties of transition metal oxides ) Traditional Martinist Order Trunked Mode Operation, see Digital mobile radio TrackMania Original Topics referred to by

630-746: The Southern Darfur Arab Rizeigat tribe led by Sheikh Madibbo , defeated the Ottoman forces led by Slatin Pasha (that had just invaded Egypt earlier that year) in Darfur. When Ahmad's successor, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad , himself an Arab of Southern Darfur from the Ta’isha tribe , demanded that the pastoralist tribes provide soldiers, several tribes rose up in revolt. Following the defeat of Abdallahi at Omdurman in 1899 by an Anglo-Egyptian expeditionary force,

675-553: The Sudan Liberation Movement, subscribed to the agreement; the Justice and Equality Movement rejected it, resulting in a continuation of the conflict. The agreement includes provisions for wealth-sharing and power-sharing and established a Transitional Darfur Regional Authority to help administer Darfur until a referendum could take place on the future of the region. The leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Minni Minnawi,

720-685: The Sudanese Government rejected the idea of a single region headed by a vice-president from the region. On 29 January, the leaders of the Liberation and Justice Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement issued a joint statement affirming their commitment to the Doha negotiations and agreement to attend the Doha forum on 5 February. The Sudanese government had not yet agreed to attend the forum on that date and instead favoured an internal peace process without

765-509: The Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr . The region was later invaded and incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. As an administrative region, Darfur is divided into five federal states : Central Darfur , East Darfur , North Darfur , South Darfur and West Darfur . Because of the War in Darfur between Sudanese government forces and the indigenous population, the region has been in

810-781: The UN came to regard the conflict as one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. Insurgency and counter-insurgency have led to 480,000 deaths (the Khartoum government disputes the numbers). This has been labeled as the Darfur genocide . "By 2010 about 300,000 had died, according to the UN best estimate, and about 3,000,000 were forced into refugee camps." Over 2.8 million people have become displaced since 2003, many of whom were children (see Lost Boys of Sudan ). Many of these refugees have gone into camps where emergency aid has created conditions that, although extremely basic, are better than in

855-575: The basis of ethnicity ). In 2014, according to Detroit Free Press (newspaper) and the US census , there are about 210,000 Michiganders who have roots in the Middle East . The Muslim Observer hopes to further expand its circulation base in the future by increasing its readership among this ethnic population. The Muslim Observer is the oldest of the branches of Muslim Media Network, Inc., (MMN) which came into existence and subsumed it in 2005. MMN also contains

900-470: The community. They show 987 paid subscribers. It has national and international correspondents, and publishes a wide variety of departments for its readers, including a children's section, a health and nutrition section, and various regional pages, including the ones for Houston , southeast Michigan , and south Florida . The newspaper prides itself on printing news that cannot be found in mainstream papers. Thus without endorsing their views it will reprint

945-573: The first historical attestable kingdom . They were centered in the Marrah Mountains and left records of valuable rock engravings, stone architecture and a ( orally preserved ) list of kings. The Tunjur replaced the Daju in the fourteenth century and the Daju established new headquarters in Abyei, Denga, Darsila and Mongo in the current Chad. The Tunjur sultans intermarried with the Fur and sultan Musa Sulayman (reigned c.  1667  – c.  1695 )

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990-466: The following languages are spoken in Darfur according to Ethnologue . The region is divided into five federal states : Central Darfur , East Darfur , North Darfur , South Darfur and West Darfur . The Darfur Peace Agreement of 2006 established a Transitional Darfur Regional Authority as an interim authority for the region. The agreement stated that a referendum on the status of Darfur should be held no later than 2011. Minni Minnawi

1035-453: The involvement of rebel groups. Later in February, the Sudanese Government agreed to return to the Doha peace forum with a view to complete a new peace agreement by the end of that month. On 25 February, both the Liberation and Justice Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement announced that they had rejected the peace document proposed by the mediators in Doha. The main sticking points were

1080-688: The issues of a Darfuri vice-president and compensation for victims. The Sudanese government had not commented on the peace document. At the Doha Peace Forum in June, the Joint Mediators proposed a new Darfur Peace Agreement , which would supersede the Abuja Agreement of 2005 and if signed, would halt preparations for a Darfur status referendum. The proposal included provisions for a Darfuri Vice-President and an administrative structure that includes both

1125-457: The mid-1980s disrupted many societal structures and led to the first significant modern fighting amongst Darfuris. A low-level conflict continued for the next fifteen years, with the government co-opting and arming Arab Janjaweed militias against its enemies. The fighting reached a peak in 2003 with the beginning of the Darfur conflict , in which the resistance coalesced into a roughly cohesive rebel movement. In March 2004, human-rights groups and

1170-586: The movement had accepted the core proposals of the Darfur peace document proposed by the joint-mediators in Doha; the proposals included a $ 300,000,000 compensation package for victims of atrocities in Darfur and special courts to conduct trials of persons accused of human-rights violations. Proposals for a new Darfur Regional Authority were also included; this authority would have an executive council of 18 ministers and would remain in place for five years. The current three Darfur states and state governments would also continue to exist during this period. In February 2011

1215-621: The new Anglo-Egyptian government recognized Ali Dinar as the sultan of Darfur and largely left the Dar to its own affairs except for a nominal annual tribute. In 1916, after the British government suspected that the sultan was falling under the influence of the Ottoman government , an expedition was launched from Egypt to capture and annex Darfur into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The colonial government directed financial and administrative resources to

1260-401: The official story of 9–11. The paper less consistently advocates the somewhat ill-considered but generally accepted American Muslim views on national and international issues, for instance attacking from early on the attempts to intervene in Darfur on the grounds that the people advocating intervention had ulterior motives (namely Sudanese oil reserves and splitting the Muslim community on

1305-681: The post on 20 September 2011. The regional authority was dissolved in July 2016 following a referendum , on the status of the Darfur region within Sudan. As part of the Sudanese transition to democracy , a Darfur Regional Government was created in August 2021 with Minni Minawi as Regional Governor. In 2008, Darfur's population was 7.5 million. This in an increase by nearly six times from 1973 (1.3 million). 52% are aged 16 years or younger. Darfur's budget

1350-422: The region was more humid, would have contained about 2,500 km (600 cubic miles) of water. It may have dried up thousands of years ago. Most of the region consists of a semi-arid plain and thus appears unsuitable for developing a large and complex civilization . But the Marrah Mountains offer plentiful water, and by the 12th century the Daju people , succeeding the semi-legendary Tora culture , created

1395-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TMO . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TMO&oldid=1186589895 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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1440-439: The size of mainland Spain . It is largely a semi-desert plateau with the Marrah Mountains ( Jebel Marra), a range of volcanic peaks rising up to 3,042 meters (9,980 ft) of elevation above sea level, and a topographic prominence of 2512 m, in the center of the region. The region's main towns are Al Fashir , Geneina , and Nyala . There are four main features of its physical geography. The whole eastern half of Darfur

1485-467: The speeches of people under fire from and vilified by the mainstream media like Hassan Nasrallah or Moqtada Sadr — this despite the newspaper's definite disagreement with the views advocated by those people. In addition, the paper has other editorial advocacy positions that have remained consistent over the years. Criticism of Israel for abuses is one such area. Another is 9-11 Conspiracy theory . The paper consistently reprints views that undermine

1530-495: The three states and a strategic regional authority, the Darfur Regional Authority , to oversee Darfur as a whole. The new agreement was signed by the Government of Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement on 14 July. The Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement did not sign the new document at that time but had three months in which to do so if they wished. A comprehensive peace agreement

1575-468: The tribes of central Sudan near Khartoum - while the outlying regions such as Darfur remained mostly forgotten and ignored. K. D. D. Henderson was the last British governor of Darfur. A pattern of skewed economic development continued after Sudan achieved political independence in 1956. The governor at the time of independence was Ali Abdallah Abu Sinn , who had joined the civil service in 1923 and served in Darfur since 1946 . In August 1958 he

1620-446: The umbrella organization for a family of Muslim advocacy organizations whose flagship would have been The Muslim Observer. The IPO fell through in the face of the tremendous fees associated with mandatory state and federal filing fees and huge accounting fees associated with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. In the wake of the failed IPO, MMN has become primarily a shell organization, the logo that accompanies TMO and MMNS. Dr. Aslam Abdullah

1665-473: The villages, which offer no protection against the various militias that operate in the region. Nearly two-thirds of the population continues to struggle to survive in remote villages. Virtually no foreigners visit the region because of the fear of kidnapping, and only some non-governmental organizations continue to provide long-term grass-roots assistance. As of 2015 the United Nations is in discussion with

1710-644: The war in Lebanon, [Escape from Bint Jebail]. The newspaper reprints many Reuters articles and some Associated Press and AFP articles. Generally mainstream, but some of the views advocated by some articles in the paper are at the fringe. The publisher of the newspaper is a retired Indian-American cardiologist, Dr. Abdul Raheman S. Nakadar. The newspaper faces an uncertain future, in the weak market for printed media. Darfur Darfur ( / d ɑːr ˈ f ʊər / dar- FOOR ; Arabic : دار فور , romanized :  Dār Fūr , lit.   'Realm of

1755-646: Was appointed Senior Assistant to the President of Sudan and Chairman of the transitional authority in 2007. In December 2010, representatives of the Liberation and Justice Movement , an umbrella organisation of ten rebel groups, formed in February of that year, started a fresh round of talks with the Sudanese Government in Doha , Qatar . A new rebel group, the Sudanese Alliance Resistance Forces in Darfur,

1800-520: Was destroyed by the Egyptian ruler set up in Khartoum , largely through the machinations of Sebehr Rahma , a slave-trader, who was competing with the dar over access to ivory in Bahr el Ghazal to the south of Darfur. The Darfuris were restive under Egyptian rule, but were no more predisposed to accept the rule of the self-proclaimed Mahdi , Muhammad Ahmad , when in 1882 his Emir of Darfur, who came from

1845-420: Was formed and the Justice and Equality Movement planned further talks. The talks ended on December 19 without a new peace agreement, but participants agreed on basic principles, including a regional authority and a referendum on autonomy for Darfur. The possibility of a Darfuri Vice-President was also discussed. In January 2011, the leader of the Liberation and Justice Movement, Dr. Tijani Sese , stated that

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1890-447: Was signed on 31 August 2020 in Juba , South Sudan, between the Sudanese authorities and rebel factions to end armed hostilities. However, further tribal clashes have continued during 2021. Languages of Darfur include Daju , Erenga (or Sungor ), Fongoro , Fulbe (or Fulfulde ), Fur (thus the name of the region), Masalit , Sinyar , Tama , Midob , and Zaghawa . Other than Fur,

1935-476: Was succeeded by Ahmad Makki Abdo , who remained in power despite the coup d'état of that year, until he was finally dismissed in December 1959 and replaced by al-Tijani Sa'd . The proxy wars between Sudan , Libya and Chad added an element of political instability. Darfurians began to respond to the ideology of Arab supremacy propagated by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (in power 1969–2011). A famine in

1980-559: Was the first chair of this authority, holding that office from April 2007 until December 2010, when he was succeeded by Shartai Jaafar Abdel Hakam . The peace agreement that was signed in July 2011 saw the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority reconstituted as the Darfur Regional Authority with executive and legislative functions. The chairperson of the Darfur Regional Authority, Tijani Sese , assumed

2025-536: Was the name given by the early light-colored Berber sultans of Darfur to the original inhabitants of the country such as the Binga, Banda, etc. As the historic dynasty's physical appearance became more "Africanized" from intermarriage with black wives and concubines, the appearance of the sultans darkened correspondingly and they became known by the appellation of their subjects, Fūr . Darfur covers an area of 493,180 square kilometers (190,420 sq mi), approximately

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