South Sudan And The Civil Conflict

‘The war in Darfur” is an armed conflict in the Sudan Darfur region that began in 2003 and is still ongoing, and in 2005 it was later declared as a civil war against Chad and Central African Republic.

In the long run, Lost boys were positively affected by being able to go to the United States. During the second Sudan civil war in 1987, between Northern Sudan and Southern Sudan, many boys were separated from their families because they had to flee to avoid slavery, death, or being forced to fight. About 20,000 boys, mostly 6 or 7 years old, had to flee. They walked thousands of miles to find safety. Over the journey, thousands of boys lost their lives, but some boys survived and made it to refugee camps. These boys are called Lost boys. “UNHCR recommended approximately 3,600 of them for resettlement in the United States and the U.S. State Department concurred," (“International Rescue Committee”). UNHCR(the United Nations refugee agency) recommended

Even though the Sudanese government does not support terrorism, Sudan is an unstable region considered a terrorist state by the international community. An oil pipeline deal last year could prove an attractive opportunity to terrorist cells in the region and provide the needed

The economy overall of Sudan after the civil war was very underdeveloped and terribly managed. The population of Sudan in 2013 was approximately 38 million people, with about 11.3 million of the people living South Sudan. Conflict continued with the Southern Sudan rebels even after the second civil war which also hurt the economy. Not only that, but the economy is poorly governed. The reason Sudan doesn’t have the greatest economy in our world today is because of the amount of people that are poor and unemployed.

In 2005, the Civil War in Sudan which has been going on for two decades has finally resolved through the signing of the “Comprehensive Peace Agreement” (CPA). The placement of the CPA was to reform the government into a democracy, also to unify North and South Sudan and to bring peace to Sudan. Unfortunately, the CPA didn’t bring any of those things to Sudan. The failures of the CPA relates back to the oil pipelines, because North Sudan and South Sudan need one another to produce profit from the oil in the country. So if the country isn’t unified the country will remain unstable.

This new country was met with high praise and expectations with the United States (US) playing a key role in their accomplishment. Unfortunately, South Sudan faced hardship from the very beginning; it is one of Africa’s poorest and least developed countries even though it is oil-rich and contains the majority of the oil reserves in Sudan.

After years of fighting the North for our freedom the fight has finally ended. The North and the South finally decided that the best interest of sides was to end the war. The sides had agreed on treaty to end the war. It is a quite amazing time for the people of South Sudan. We are finally no longer under the control of people who brushed us off their shoulders. South Sudan is free and that is something to celebrate.

In the aftermath of battling a two-decade civil war, South Sudan has ultimately seceded from its former country, Sudan, in the year of 2011. Following its independence, South Sudan attempted to fabricate a modern governmental system in hopes of terminating its authoritarian past. Although South Sudan strived to follow a democratic reform, their system, however, was structured in a manner that failed to resolve both social and economical disputes. The dissimilarities between major ethnic groups, a lack of education, and the halt in oil production made it difficult for South Sudan to flourish as a unified nation. Therefore, considering these issues, the United Nations Special Task Force on South Sudan, has made recommendations that

Disagreements between the group members started, three of my friends said we had to sleep until the sunrise since we already crossed the border and we could walk in the morning and make it to the city. My friend and I said we have to keep going and make it to the city. Since they were three who said we should rest, we rested. The Sudanese border patrol saw us while we were crossing the border and did not want to follow at that moment. They kept an eye on us since they were in a very close checkpoint and knew we were resting. Early in the morning they showed up and took us to their checkpoint. They asked us if we spoke Arabic and I was the only one who knew a few Arabic. They started threatening. They started talking about an immediate deportation back to our country because we crossed the border illegally.

The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars: Peace or Truce by Douglas H. Johnson is a phenomenal investigative account of North and South Sudan. The book should be praised for providing an insightful introduction into Sudanese domestic and foreign affairs. Although particular sections in the book are tough to understand with no background knowledge, Johnson makes his argument available to a broad set of readers. Johnson offers a precise and detailed argument that explains how the country resulted in war by the past and present history of the country. The book argues that Sudan has maintained a corrupt relationship with its borders. Johnson explains his analysis by the examples of the First Civil War, in addition to his main focus on the

However, it does not seem as if the United States hopes of having a western friendly nation in a volatile region will occur as both nations continue to spend a large sum of the money invested arming their militias in preparation for more fighting (NYT 2012). In a short time, it became apparent that neither country would survive without some form of negotiation. While an agreement would in no way put an end to the violence between the two states, it would prevent them from spiraling toward an economic disaster. In recent news, with massive pressure from many international governmental organizations such as the United Nations Security Council, or the UN, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir have been in constant communication to negotiate a proper price regarding the exportation and processing of the oil. The UN approved a resolution in May 2012 threatening economic sanctions if an agreement could not be made between the two nations. The UN feared that the fighting in Sudan and South Sudan would spread across the continent, posing a "serious threat to international peace". Even Russia and China, who have resisted voting against sanctions in Sudan in the past have approved such resolutions (Kron). Without international support, Sudan and South Sudan would not be able to survive, and thus have been forced to speed up negotiations. While the finishing touches of

While still struggling to achieve peace with Sudan since its independence in 2011, South Sudan is now rife with inner-conflict. Rebel forces led by the former Vice-President Riek Machar want to overthrow the South Sudanese government, led by President Salva Kiir.

The African Union, the United Nations, the United States, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and other Western powers subsequently spent a great deal of diplomatic efforts to negotiate an end the fighting in South Sudan. In August 2015, Machar and Kiir signed a power-sharing agreement to create a coalition government, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a East African countries regional organization that promotes trade, cooperation and development, including South Sudan.

South Sudan has grievances that have defaced the rights of their citizens. The government has created an unsafe place for its citizens to live. Here are some of the grievances that the South Sudan government face:

Less than a year after Sudan divided into new Republic of South Sudan and the new Republic of North Sudan the both countries get involved in conflict. The years of efforts by the international community to put an end to this prolong conflict by assisting, negotiating and signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPA in 2005 and the other effort to guarantee the downy division of the South and North come in to view to become naught. According to CPA referendum in January 2011, in the South caused in overwhelming vote in support of the partition. During the 6 months, South and North were supposed to discuss pivotal issue to ensure that by the time the in July when the government of South came into existence, will mandate to peaceful and orderly separation. Nevertheless, scenario for peaceful separation was shattered even before the Republic of Southern Sudan came to existence in July. While, the North come out to agree the consequence of the referendum and quit itself to less moderate conditions as a country that gives up its one third of its territory and most importantly three-quarters of the oil resources, which was not the case in reality. The Republic of the South was internally divided, incompetence, insecure to involve in a thriving negotiation of issues. Hence, the division took place whilst a main problem were vestige unresolved, and conflict erupt meanwhile the South gain its independence.