This blanket term is used to describe armed gunmen in Darfur, western Sudan, and now eastern Chad. They are the successor to an earlier Arab tribal militia, the Murahilin (literally “high nomads”). According to the United Nations definition, they are comprised of nomadic Arabic-speaking African tribes (i.e. Black Arabs, or Afro-Arabs), the core of whom are from Abbala (camel herder) background with significant recruitment from the Baggara (cattle herder) people.
The term is variously transliterated to mean "devil on horseback", "a man with a gun on a horse", or simply, "a man on a horse”.
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