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Jeez- It's the dark ages all over again on this board. First, Sudan is the largest country in Africa. Second, the war is a civil one, waged for the past 19 years; religion just makes it easier for Westerners to digest and comprehend. Third, there is lots of oil in the South, controlled by the Rebels (Christian + Animists) but desired by the North. Fourth, the Dafur crisis is an inter-Islamic struggle. The African Farmers (also Muslim) would like to declare independence from the Arabs; the latter have not taken kindly to this, to say the least. They have employed a systemic response of genocide and starvation to destroy the will for independence.
“ALL this because of oil,” laments Steven Mangong. Once a farmer in a small village in the heart of southern Sudan’s oil region, Mr Mangong is now living destitute in a refugee camp at Rumbek, 300km (185 miles) away.
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