Nuba Mountains

Genocides are greatly underestimated in today’s society, when people think of genocide their minds go toward more well known and influential genocides, such as the Holocaust. Backing up a bit, a genocide is a deliberate killing of a large group of people, generally based on ethnic and/or religious affiliations. This can be anywhere from how someone looks, or how they lead their own lives, or even just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some people might think genocides are a thing of…

To the east are the Red Sea Hills and the Ethiopian Highlands, while the Nuba Mountains are in the south. The highest point, at 3,042 meters, is the mountain Deriba Caldera of the volcanic range Marrah Mountains in the west. Also in the west are the Highlands of Darfur and the Nile-Congo Watershed, also known as the Nile-Congo Divide. This, at 2,000 kilometers long, separates the drainage basins…

Sudanese civil wars The Sudanese civil wars are broken into two wars. The first war was from 1955-1972. The second civil war was 1983-2005. Both of these civil wars involved conflict between the North Sudan Government and various rebel groups fighting for separation from the north. In the first civil war, the government fought against a rebel group that went by the name of, “Anyana” who conjoined with the Democratic Republic of Sudan. These two organizations aimed and fought for the South…

people against Machar’s ethnic Nuer people. The ethnic power struggle is not the only conflict occurring in South Sudan, there is also the issue of oil between Sudan and South Sudan, the insubstantial economy, and border disputes over Abyei and the Nuba Mountains region. Along with this, the South Sudanese population is on the brink of…

looks like the map was drawn and needed to be dried in the sun. The map was written in English but it only depicted one part of Africa. The map, however, shares a similarity with the other maps in the aspect that it does identify the presence of mountain ranges and bodies of water. I assume this map was originally made around the period of the ancient Egyptians or Hebrews because Ptolemy only showed North Africa on the map. At these two periods in time Africa was only relevant to the world…