Sudanese Civil War Research Paper

The country of South Sudan had been through many decades of consistent fighting and civil wars to become the independent country that is today South Sudan. The inequality and unfair government treatment led to their decision of officially breaking the largest country in Africa into two separate countries. Only six years after the peace treaty that finally ended the atrocious civil war did South Sudan gain independence, becoming Africa's newest country. South South Sudan faced many problematic issues wanting to break off and become independent and its own nation because the southerners felt discriminated against by the disagreement with the northern government standards.

Although I had sufficient meals in morning and evening, I was still hunger during day time. I played tennis on Wednesday. While running on the court, I felt extremely dehydrated and starving. When I hit the ball, I suddenly felt that I was going to fall down because I was shaky and exhausted. I ran to the bathroom and squatted down. I was overwhelmed by my weakness that a sense of insecurity surrounded me. “I am weak”, I told myself, “I can not do this”. I suddenly reflected on my experience in Yemen. I was sitting in the car while I witnessed refugee children knocking on my window and tirelessly begging for food. In their eyes, I saw no anger but fear. All they worried about were the basic need of living: food. Many people, nowadays, fast to lose weight. For them, fasting shows their courage and persistence. They lose the sympathy to the poor who starve to death. However, many poor people, including labors and refugees, have to do heavy manual work for livings. In addition to physical pain, the poor also suffer mentally. For instance, the refugee children are always worrying about their next meals with no sense of secure. They have no hope to their futures. With the experience of working in hunger, I am able to relate my feelings to poor people’s feelings and show empathy toward them.

“Over 100,000 children under five suffer from acute malnutrition while one child out of three is stunted, or irreversibly short for their age.”(“Hunger”) This staggering statistic is due to one of the world’s biggest problems, hunger. Hunger is a problem that many developing countries face, one of the biggest victims to hunger is the small Caribbean country of Haiti. Hunger in Haiti affects the entire country, from the rural countrysides to the major cities. Though hunger is already a big issue for Haiti, it has gotten worse in the past decade due to the extreme poverty, heavy storms, and natural disasters that the country has faced. “In 1997 some 1.2 million Haitians didn 't have enough food to eat. A decade later the number had more than doubled. Today, that figure is 6.7 million, that goes without food some days, can 't afford a balanced diet or has limited access to food.”(“Goldberg”) Natural disasters and extreme poverty have played large roles in Haiti’s growing hunger problem.

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

Witness the state of South Sudan dramatic developments began , according to the novel government , trying a range of Republican Guard forces , known as " Tiger " , to control the ammunition depot continued to lead the army in the capital, Juba , to explode clashes , perimeter defense headquarters , between the Republican Guard and the army's power costly secure warehouse on the one hand , and between the attacking group on the one hand , to announce the President of the Republic , Salva Kiir , the head of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Sudan's ruling , for the failure of an attempt to overturn a military Ikduha his former vice president , Riek Machar , and imposes a curfew , and

In the African countries of Uganda and South Sudan, thousands of men, women and children are being brutally murdered and mutilated in their own villages. Children are being kidnapped by the thousands. Women are being brutally raped. Shockingly, the assailants in these heinous crimes are children, armed under the leadership of a military madman named Joseph Kony. Calling themselves the Lord’s Resistance Army, they are considered one of the most vicious terrorist groups in the world.

The first struggle Francis faced involved cooking. He made it to his apartment and realized that he was hungry. Consequently, he couldn’t read the labels on the food cans and he was unable to cook any food. Ahmed brought Francis a pizza but he doesn’t like the look of it and thinks it’s messy. “But I did not like Ahmed’s present.” It did not look like good food to me; it seemed messy (164). His bed, another problem gave him havoc every night. It was made for americans, not 6 foot 6 Sudanese men. Francis had trouble getting around in Fargo. Francis’s transportation, a bike didn’t ride well in the snow. “One second I’m riding my bike, the next I’m a snowman” (172). Even though Francis made good money he still had trouble with the hard labor at

Although endowed with rich natural resources, Sudan remains underdeveloped as the results of wars and poor management. The economy has shown very limited growth throughout the years. Sudan is one of the many countries in Africa, with frequent struggles and gains for what is it now. It has a vast and interesting history of battling for its independence and many rights. Sudan is one of the oil producing countries, with a slow increase in their economy. Some of the most liked products come from Sudan, like bananas, sesame seeds, sweet potatoes, cotton and livestock. There are several different aspects that shapes this country to what is it now and what is was back then. It’s still a developing country that needs improvement and help through

South Sudan had gone through severe budgetary and economic problems related to oil production in January 2012 as notified by Erickson & Faria, (2011). The researchers stated that due to disagreement in the transit fees, austerity was adopted by the government of South Sudan. This decreased one third of government expenditure thereby exposing most of the population to face inflation that rose to 75 % (Grawert, 2010). The value of the South Sudanese pound decreased while the price of fuel and food were increased. As a result of this economic instability, the people of the country are faced with huge financial and economic crisis that further increased their anger towards the government, and heightening the prospects of rebellions.

In all cases, family comes first. This is the theme of the short story “Civil Peace” and the two articles shown. They explain why family is what is the most important in a person’s life.

Sudan is a country with multitudes of problems. I will address just a portion of the many problems this country face but must first began with a very brief background.

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.

Furthermore, another source of the problem began with the gradual change of the climate in Darfur. Desertification, a process by which land becomes increasingly dry until almost no vegetation grows on it, becomes a major problem for the Darfur people. Land for farming becomes scarce. Living on desert is unsuitable for humans for obvious reasons: lack of food and, more importantly, lack of water. There is not much suitable farm land, therefore “the lack of fertile land caused the populations to compete with one another for land on which they could survive” (Xavier 18). Before desertification became a huge problem for the Sudanese people, they lived in peace. Honestly, “the hostility between Darfur’s Arabs and Africans are relatively new” (Xavier 20). This shows how the competition for survival helped fuel the terrible genocide in Darfur.

The origin of the war between these two regions goes back to the 1950s when the country, which was previously two separate nations, was made one after World War II by the west. Shortly after this union, Sudan was emancipated from England. 1983 marks the beginning of the violent relations between the North and South Sudan. The initiation of this conflict was brought forth by the Islamic Sudanese of the North, invading with military force the Southern Sudanese Christians . From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in the violent duration of this genocide, most of whom are of the Christian faith and lead non-violent civilian lives. Attention on human trafficking was brought into the international community’s scope with close proximity to the beginning of the violence as two professors from the University of Khartoum shed light on the subject. Ushari Ahmad Mahumud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people, a tribal group in the southern Sudan, and upon this discovery they dicided to investigate it further. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the Southern Christian men and kidnapping the women and children to be sold into slavery. The most disturbing part of this discovery was the newfound knowledge that this had been going on for over two years. Professors Mahumud and Baldo

According to Africa News, 45 people have died as a result of ethnic fighting, The attack against the Ruop was carried out by the Pakem fighters in retaliation for the attacks that were carried out by a group of Ruop youths.  The fighting was very heavy, it left more than 45 people dead and many more injured. The military has since been deployed from the state capital to try and stop the violence that has seen the burning down of houses and property.