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    Since 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese government have been at war within the southern region of Sudan. This brutal conflict has ravaged the country claiming hundreds of lives and exiling a vast number of the southern Sudanese people. Most of these outcasts were young men aging between five and twelve who were tending cattle to return home to see their village being attacked and their villagers being killed. These boys fled not knowing what they would encounter

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    Since 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese government have been at war within the southern region of Sudan. This brutal conflict has ravaged the country claiming hundreds of lives and exiling a vast number of the southern Sudanese people. Most of these outcasts were young men aging between five and twelve years of age who returned home from tending cattle to see their village being attacked and their fellow villagers being killed by government militias . These boys

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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 film, Lost Boys of Sudan, follows the journey of both Peter and Santino as they travel from refugee camps in Kakuma all the way the United States. They show amazing resilience and strength as they leave all that they have grown to know and be comfortable with and start a whole new life in a foreign country. Islamist extremists control Sudan and have waged a violent campaign against Southern Christian, animist Sudanese as well as the Dinka and Nuer peoples. Many people like Peter and Santino were

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    The second Sudanese Civil War in Sudan forced millions of innocent people to flee their homes and families in search for safety. Doing so, many got displaced or killed because of starvation, genocidal murder and bomb raids. Those who survived were sent to a refugee camp in Kenya and some - the “lost boys”- a name given by aid workers at the camp, had the fortune to be sent by the United States to America to start a new life. Among these were Panther Bior, John Bul Dau, and Daniel Abol Pach, whose

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    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

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    South Sudan has a long history of violence, chances for economic success, and geographic position that would suggest success in development, but the very issues that should increase the development cause issues in South Sudan. South Sudan became an independent country from Sudan on July 9, 2011 and has a population between 7.5-10 million people about 50.6% of which live under the poverty line (“South Sudan” The World Factbook and “South Sudan country profile”). The journey to independence has been

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    Reportage The Right for Self Determination for South Sudan 2011 The problem of south Sudan started to be accumulated since the twenties of the last century and developed through the time; it is affected by the entrance of the colonist to Sudan in 1898. The colonial tried to isolate the south from the north since the beginning through, adopting a set of laws which include; passport and license law1922, close district law 1929 and trips' leaders court law 1931.In addition to enforce the English

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    PROPOSAL WRITING BY: DR. KIYINGI G.W SUPERVISOR: MRS. JOYCE BUKIRWA TOPIC EVALUTION OF AN AUTOMATED LIBRARY SYSTEM IN THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES OF SOUTH SUDAN: A CASE OF JUBA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction This chapter discuses the background of the study, statement of the problems

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    The Republic of South Sudan, formed in 2011, is one of the worlds youngest countries and it neighbors it's sister, The Republic of North Sudan, and both are in a situation of turmoil as always. After two civil wars, the country of Sudan split apart after an agreement of 98% the Sudanese people to split apart and go their seperate ways. This resembles the same conflicts of North and South Korea, and Upper and Lower Egypt. Now after being formed in 2011, the republic of South Sudan is already in danger

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