Editing Arabs (section)

==== Sub-Saharan Africa ====
{{Main|Afro-Arabs|Baggara Arabs|Ghanaian Arabs|Arabs in Ivory Coast|Lebanese people in Senegal|Lebanese people in Sierra Leone|Diffa Arabs}}
[[File:Baggara belt.png|thumb|upright=1.1|Map of the Baggara belt]]
[[Afro-Arabs]] are individuals and groups from [[Africa]] who are of partial Arab descent. Most Afro-Arabs inhabit the [[Swahili coast|Swahili Coast]] in the [[African Great Lakes]] region, although some can also be found in parts of the Arab world.<ref name="Romero2">{{Cite book|last=Romero|first=Patricia W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5hyAAAAMAAJ|title=Lamu|date=1997|publisher=Markus Wiener|isbn=978-1-55876-106-3|page=7|access-date=25 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Gunnar2">{{Cite book|first1=Gunnar M|last1=Sorbø|first2=Abdel Ghaffar Muhammad|last2=Ahmed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fe3QAQAAQBAJ|title=Sudan Divided: Continuing Conflict in a Contested State|date=2013|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1137338242|page=90|access-date=25 November 2014}}</ref> Large numbers of Arabs migrated to [[West Africa]], particularly [[Côte d'Ivoire]] (home to over 100,000 Lebanese),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ivory Coast – The Levantine Community|url=http://countrystudies.us/ivory-coast/72.htm|access-date=17 September 2011|publisher=Countrystudies.us}}</ref> [[Senegal]] (roughly 30,000 Lebanese),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118213343/http://voanews.com/english/archive/2007-07/2007-07-10-voa46.cfm Lebanese Immigrants Boost West African Commerce], By Naomi Schwarz, voanews.com, 10 July 2007</ref> [[Sierra Leone]] (roughly 10,000 Lebanese today; about 30,000 prior to the outbreak of [[Sierra Leone Civil War|civil war]] in 1991), [[Liberia]], and [[Nigeria]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6908065.stm Lebanese man shot dead in Nigeria], BBC News</ref> Since the end of the civil war in 2002, [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] traders have become re-established in Sierra Leone.<ref>{{cite web|title=African Union Summit|url=http://ausummit-accra.org.gh/index1.php?linkid=289&adate=04%2F07%2F2007&archiveid=140&page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307113837/http://ausummit-accra.org.gh/index1.php?linkid=289&adate=04%2F07%2F2007&archiveid=140&page=1|archive-date=7 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Randall|first=Colin|date=19 November 2004|title=The night westerners were hunted for being white|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1477006/The-night-westerners-were-hunted-for-being-white.html|url-status=live|url-access=subscription|access-date=26 June 2009|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1477006/The-night-westerners-were-hunted-for-being-white.html|archive-date=10 January 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Ivory Coast: A Country Study|publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office|GPO]] for the [[Library of Congress]]|year=1988|editor-last=Handloff|editor-first=Robert E.|series=Country Studies|location=Washington, DC|chapter=The Levantine Community|chapter-url=http://countrystudies.us/ivory-coast/72.htm}}</ref> The Arabs of Chad occupy northern Cameroon and Nigeria (where they are sometimes known as Shuwa), and extend as a belt across Chad and into Sudan, where they are called the [[Baggara]] grouping of [[Arab]] ethnic groups inhabiting the portion of Africa's [[Sahel]]. There are 171,000 in [[Cameroon]], 150,000 in [[Niger]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 October 2006|title=Niger's Arabs to fight expulsion|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6081416.stm|access-date=18 December 2017|publisher=BBC News}}</ref>), and 107,000 in the [[Central African Republic]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Central African Republic|date=22 March 2023|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/central-african-republic/|work=The World Factbook|access-date=28 March 2023|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency}}</ref>