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Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation

Sudanese humanitarian organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ85789966 ↗
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The Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation (NRRDO) is a Sudanese humanitarian organization, which was focal in delivering aid to the Nuba people during the Second Sudanese Civil War and the Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.

NRRDO was first established in 1993 but became fully operational in 1995. The organization was originally named The Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Society (NRRDS) but was changed to the current name in the year 2000. Yousif Kuwa was heavily involved with the NRRDO which provides the people of the Nuba Mountains with food, cooking oil, clothing and education. On 26 of May, 2014 NRRDO headquarters were bombed by the government of Sudan damaging the compound.

The NRRDO has its headquarters in Kauda and a liaison office in Nairobi. Current executive director for NRRDO is Ali Shamilla, Previous executive directors have been Najwa Musa Konda and el-Lazim Suleiman el-Basha.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation” as sudanese humanitarian organization. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1995, 2000, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. The account is most persuasive where Nuba, Relief and Rehabilitation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as sudanese humanitarian organization. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85789966. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993, 1995, 2000 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.