%0 Report %D 2011 %T The Razing: Intentional Burning Confirmed at El-Feid, Nuba Mountains %A Not On Our Watch %A The Enough Project %A Google %A he United Nations UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) %A Harvard Humanitarian Initiative %A DigitalGlobe %A Trellon, LLC %X

The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has confirmed that at least 356 structures in the town of el-Feid, located in the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan State, Sudan, have been razed. There is evidence that an area in Um Barmbita has also been burned, but no visible structures appear to have been destroyed. SSP cannot confirm based on the imagery collected whether the scorched area in Um Barmbita was intentionally burned. There is evidence of scorching at several points between and around the two communities, which are an estimated 15 to 20 kilometers apart. The razing of el-Feid underscores the rising tensions in the Nuba Mountain region as next month's South Kordofan State gubernatorial elections approach.

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