The variety Birgid was spoken (at least until 1970) north of Nyala in Darfur but is now extinct.
Because of its supply of water the site not only became an important stop on the Midland Trail, but was also alluring as a base of operations for agricultural pursuits.
Nyala (Daju: "the place of chatting or a theatre") is the capital of South Darfur state in the south-west of Sudan.
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In the 1953 legislative election he was elected to the House of Representatives from Nyala Baggara East as a Socialist Republican Party candidate.
It was set up in 1989 through the intervention of the Zoological Society of London to safeguard a small decreasing population of the critically endangered Tragelaphus buxtoni or Mountain Nyala.
The valley has 4 separate Wildlife Management Areas ("Railroad Valley WMA"), and valley communities include Currant, Crows Nest, Green Springs, Lockes, and Nyala.