The word 'janjaweed' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this word to refer to a paramilitary group active in Sudan and Chad. For example, "The janjaweed have been accused of committing numerous atrocities in the region."
But it burst into violence early last year, when rebel groups claiming to represent black Darfuris began an uprising and Sudan's government armed the mainly Arab janjaweed to help it fight the rebels.
But if they cannot form a coherent front, Sudan's ruthless government will be happy to leave them in limbo, at the mercy of the murderous janjaweed.
The killing and burning of villages by the government-directed Arab janjaweed militias continue.
The janjaweed had smashed and burned all the granaries, to starve the locals into submission.
As many as 300,000 Darfurians may have died in the conflict so far, and some 2m have been displaced, mainly (but certainly not wholly) at the hands of government forces and the janjaweed.
Sudan's military intelligence has been supportive of both the CIA (spilling a few beans on al-Qaeda) and the janjaweed militias who have done most of the killing in Darfur.
The janjaweed militias have fragmented, fighting among themselves and occasionally against the Sudanese army, especially when they have not been paid.
They had hoped that this force, unlike the previous pathetic outfit provided by the African Union, would finally give them protection from the marauding janjaweed and bandits who kill and rape them.
Even the notorious janjaweed, an Arab militia that served as proxies for the Sudanese army, are now as likely to fight each other or even to turn on the government if they have not been paid on time.
It is home to more than 100,000 angry residents, many of them previously victims of the deadly government-supported militias known as the janjaweed.
The janjaweed, an irregular militia armed by the government, had burned his village to ashes twice last year, prompting its residents to flee.
