No reports on the Wawat and the Medjey tribes and their treatment by the government of Sudan could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please see below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series [Oxford]. Monthly. January 1988 - January 1999. Vols. 25-35.

Encyclopedia of the Third World. 1993. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Edited by George Thomas Kurian. New York: Facts on File.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 1999. 13th ed. Edited by Barbra F. Grimes. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Keesing's Record of World Events [Cambridge]. January 1988-January 1999. Monthly. Vols. 35-45.

Resource Centre. Country File. Sudan. 1994-1998.

Sudan Democratic Gazette [London]. Monthly. September 1990 - April 1999. Nos. 4-107.

Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, LEXIS/NEXIS, World Network Connection (WNC)

Four oral sources consulted did not provide information on the requested subject.