Sudan is located in northeastern Africa and shares borders with not only Egypt and Libya but the Red Sea as well. The official languages spoken in Sudan are Arabic and English along with the religions being majority Sunni Muslim and a small Christian minority. Sudan was Africa’s largest country until South Sudan gained their independence in 2011. Sudan is made up of flat grounds with the desert covering the majority of the country. The climate is hot and dry with the rainy season being scarce and
Sudan Post-Colonialism and its Struggles Between 1820 and 1956, Sudan was colonized by name empires; however, the one that left a legacy still visible today was that of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Like most other European colonies, the British took license drawing borders around territories with little regard for the ethnicities living in the region. The new borders created by the British in Southern Sudan supported and isolated the many different tribes located there. As a result, these groups
national politics since Sudan gained freedom from Anglo-Egyptian co-rule in 1956. Sudan was entangled in two post-independence civil war amid the greater part of the rest of the twentieth century. These wars were based on the northern Muslims, Arabs economic, political, and social control of the more largely populated non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The first war ended with the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, which granted significant regional autonomy to southern Sudan on internal issues. (CIA
A detailed and objective description of the human rights issues presented in this week’s readings is genocide of Sudan. Genocide is the intentions to harm a society’s of their existence. The word genocide goes back to biblical days. The Old Testament of the King James Bible, in general the first five books, depict God as “a despotic and capricious sadist, and his followers as eager genocidaires (genocidal killers) (Jones, 2006). There is many instances of the use of the word Genocide in the history
Sudan had had a horrific civil war since 1956, between two different regions that practice two different religions, Muslim North and Christian South (“Slave Redemption Increases Slavery in Sudan”). The Muslim North governs their country in Khartoum, and they praise or even support the idea of attacking the Christian South villages and capturing people, who were later sold into slavery (“Slave Redemption Increases Slavery in Sudan”). The civil war continued on for decades until October 2002, the United
where the human tread persist in this days, Sudan has been facing the slavery problem since twenty century. Most slaves were initially captured in wars or kidnapped in isolated raids, but some were sold into slavery trade by their parents as a means of surviving extreme conditions. However, Sudan slavery is unique though it was not based on any of the traditional reasons for enslavement. Instead, Slavery was based on a new concept because modern day. Sudan government was involved
destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”(Stanton). In the past few years there have been mass killings in the Darfur region of South Sudan along with many rapes and rehoming of African people. The have been militia
For the past five decades North and South Sudan fought two bloody civil war. After 2 million people lost their lives as a result of the civil war, South Sudan declared its independence on July 9, 2011 following a peace agreement signed that include the right of South Sudan to vote on a referendum and voted to secede from the rest of the nation (Belloni, 2011). Although the natural resource rich South Sudan finally get its independence, there are many challenges lie ahead of the world’s newest nation
Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Background Study of Sudan 2 3.0 Analysis of each options 3 3.1 Cost of Operation 4 3.2 Environment Impact 5 3.3 Feasibility of Options 5 4.0 Conclusion and Recommendations 6 1.0 Introduction Water is one very essential resource for human existence. It accounts for about two thirds of the earth surface with a volume of about 1.4 billion cubic centimeter. About 97 percent of the total earth’s water is salt water from the ocean with only a minute percentage
Sudan Genocide The Sudan genocide started on the 26 February 2003, When the Sudan liberation movement rebel groups took up arms against the government of Sudan, the Sudan government responded to the attacks by arming the Janjaweed militia’s and started an ethnic cleansing against non-Arabism Darfur leaving hundreds of thousands dead. At the beginning of 1991 non-Arabs of the zaghawa complained that they were victims of the intensifying Arab apartheid campaign. Sudanese Arabs who control the government