Killer Bees and Removal

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A Look Back At 30+ Years of Beekeeping in Sudan...Where Do We Go From Here?

A Look Back At 30+ Years of Beekeeping in Sudan...Where Do We Go From Here?:

"Managing Director of Sudan's World Bee, Abdel Hameed Gafaar, 46, began his career in Sudan with NEF (Near East Foundation). Actually Hameed and NEF both began together. Hameed was NEF's first Sudanese employee, working alongside North Carolina beekeepers Lloyd Garcia and William Lord.

Together they tackled the enormous challenge of domesticating and increasing production of Sudan's notoriously aggressive African bees, building the base on which an entire generation of Sudanese beekeepers would experiment and expand for over three decades.

Hameed's first assignment with NEF was hardship duty, working with women beekeepers in camps for Eritrean refugees located in Sudan's then prosperous eastern Gedaref State. Some women were accustomed to traditional beekeeping in their native Ethiopia; others were new. But none had ever experienced the ferocity of Sudan's native African bees; and none had ever tried to domesticate bees for commercial purposes.

Hameed and his new family lived alongside the refugees under extreme conditions, so difficult that his first child was a casualty to the hardships they endured. The refugees came and went, but Hameed remained with NEF, working in beekeeping and on a variety of agriculture and small scale business development projects."