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    CS 1000 Sudan Sudan, like many countries, has a complicated history ridden with war and turmoil. It is positioned in northeastern Africa, and neighbored by Egypt, Ethiopia, and Chad. It was once the largest state in Africa, consisting of a population of approximately of 37 million, according to the World Bank estimate, before it was split into Sudan and South Sudan in July 2011 . The southern region of Sudan was granted autonomy in terms of a Peace Agreement. Before this agreement, the country

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    INTRODUCTION Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. “The ‘Darfur Genocide’ refers to the current mass slaughter and rape of men, women, and children in Western Sudan” (Mitchell Hamline School of Law). Not only are these atrocities happening, but the Darfurians are being force from their land and into refugee camps, mainly in the country Chad, but also other countries like Ethiopia or Kenya. Darfur genocide causes can be found both

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    The women of Sudan have come a long way in their struggle not only to be heard, but also to have a positive and lasting effect on the people in Sudan. This organization was born during exile, and reflects the long struggle and what has been achieved by the women in Sudan. Since its establishment in 1998, this organization has brought women from the both the Northern and Southern part of Sudan together in order to work for the same goals. Women in Sudan have started a campaign that will work to defuse

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    Child Labor in South Sudan and India Tatiana Wettstein San Jose State University Chad 106 Laura Pirazzi Child Labor: South Sudan (Annet, 2011) Conflict and poverty are all too common in the country of South Sudan, along with one of the more overlooked issues of Child Labor. South Sudan is a country with some of the highest rates of child labor. The country has made progress in making laws and regulations, organizations and agencies and social programs that target

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    In 2003 the Sudan government enacted a genocide against Darfur people that so far has resulted in 300,000 murders and two million displaced people. The genocide started because of decades of neglect and oppression in the west region of darfur in sudan causing two rebel groups to rise up against sudan's government. The sudanese president, Omar Al-Bashir countered the rebellion by using an allied militia called Janjaweed in a movement to destroy civilians of the same ethnicity as the rebels the darfur

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    won World War Two, and they force 100 kids to walk at least four miles per hour. If they do not maintain this speed, they are “ticketed”, but really shot. In a similar fashion, The Lost Boys of Sudan were forced to walk for survival. It is estimated that over 20,000 children took a voyage from war torn Sudan to Ethiopia and Kenya. The cause of this voyage is the Second Sudanese Civil War, a war that killed an estimated two million residents. Holding the title of one of the longest civil wars in history

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    The Janjaweed are being controlled by the Sudanese government to rape, murder, and destroy.Additionally, the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir and the allied militias began systematically killing, raping, and torturing innocent civilians living in the region of Darfur (Pbs). Khartoum (Sudan's Capital) switched from a military strategy of direct confrontation to a policy of systematically destroying the African tribal groups located in this area and anyone that got in their way. No one knew that

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    The Crisis in Darfur, Sudan Essay

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    The Crisis in Darfur, Sudan Genocide, the attempt to destroy a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity, remains alive and well. The definition of genocide as given in the Webster's Dictionary is 'The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.' This definition depicts the situation in 1994 of Rwanda, a small and poor central African country. What makes this crisis particularly shocking is the structural character of the violence:

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    was modernised but the south neglected, creating parallel entities which overlooked the diversity and historical interrelations between the areas. A 1947 policy change to unify them meant that when the country was granted independence in 1956, Sudan was left with a heavily unified and centralised state, ruled from the north. The south, which already had social and political grievances, feared it would be dominated by the Arabic and Islamist North. Promises to create a federal system were soon

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    South Sudan

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    South Sudan has been ravaged by recurring conflicts since it gained its independence in 2011. Initially, the independence of South Sudan from the north brought about hope and joy among the southerners who had faced high humanitarian crisis and suffering since independence in 1956. However, the hope of seeing a bright future in the newly independent state of South Sudan has been short-lived and turned into human suffering that they had experienced under successive Sudanese regimes. The high expectations

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