1.5 Scope of the report 1.5.1 Geographical scope Sudan as a country consists of eighteen states and some of these states are under conflict particularly SK and BN. South Kordufan state consists of seventeen (17) localities, some are located within a territory controlled by SPLA-N and others are under government control. Blue Nile State consists of seven (7) localities under government control with the presence of SPLA-N in four (4) localities. The violations and abuses documented in this particular report took place in SK, BN, Aljazeera and Khartoum states. This report covers the following towns and villages in SK State under the government control; Dilling town, Aldolaima and Hagar Jawad in Dilling locality; Aldebaibat town a capital of Algouz locality; Khor-Eldelaib and Alfaid Um-Abdalla village in Rashad locality; Abbasiya town, Alsobaq, Alsanadra, Soug Al-Jebel and Khorfadila villages in AlAbbasiya locality; Umbrambeta and Abu-Kershola towns in Abu-Kershola locality; Kadogli town in Kadogli locality. In Blue Nile state this report covers; Damazin town in Damazin locality; Bout town and Adham village in Tadhmon locality and Madinah (12) in Wadelmahi Locality. Also the report highlights some incidents that took place out of SK and BN States especially targeting IDPs like in: Abu-Zabad, Lagawa, Alkasha and Lady village in West Kordufan State; El-Obeid town and Um-Rawaba towns in North Kordufan State; Musalamia in Aljazeera State; Khartoum, Omdurman and Khartoum North in Khartoum State. 1.5.2 Ethnic composition South Kordufan/Nuba Mountains state is mainly inhabited by Nuba ethnic tribes, tribes of Arab origin and others like Fulani, Fur, Masaleit, etc. The Nuba and other African groups are mainly farmers (cultivators) whereas the Arab ethnic groups are generally cattle keepers. Blue Nile State is inhabited by both African ethnic groups and Arabs whose main activity is farming (cultivating and cattle keeping). 1.6 Methodology There is a network of both field monitors and focal people who gathered information within the conflict areas and among IDPs. Field monitors managed to cover some 4