Sudan

Introduction Programme in Norway 3.1 Eritrea Eritrea is a small country located on the North - East of Africa on the shores of African Red Sea. It has an area of about 125,000 sq. km and a population of about 6 million. The country is bordered by Sudan to the north-west, the Red Sea on the east, Ethiopia to the South-west and south-east by Djibouti. It is ethnically and religiously diverse and includes nine ethnic groups. Eritrea became a free independent country in 1993 after a…

Genocides are still occurring; the first genocide of the 21st century was the Darfur genocide. This genocide started in February 2003. The conflict is between north and south regions of Sudan. The north is largely made up of an Islam population. The south is largely made up of a Christian population, creating conflict tied to religion similar to the Holocaust (#1). The capital of the north is Khartoum governed under General Omar al-Bashir. He desired to create Islamic-based government, which the…

“They are remnant populations that took refuge in the hills for protection against slavery, practiced for centuries by states in the Nile Valley and the sultanates of Darfur” (p. 422). During 1992, another genocidal aspect of war broke out in Sudan against the Nuba civilians of the country that became known for its essence of cutting off the Nuba from “…humanitarian assistance and the focus of only a tiny advocacy effort” (p.421). Those Nuba civilians whom were attacked were farmers that…

their wants. Some people sadly never get the opportunity to even begin to think about the things they want because they hardly have the things they need. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park follows the stories of two people growing up in Southern Sudan in different timelines. They both face struggles beyond what people growing up in first world countries could imagine. Nya and Salva hardly get to think about the things they want because they are struggling just to maintain the things that…

Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s established that international issues could not be dealt with on an inconsistent, ad hoc basis, resulting in the making of the doctrine Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P was introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001, and endorsed by United Nations (UN) member states during the 2005 World Summit. The doctrine affirmed the collective responsibility to protect when “national authorities are manifestly failing…

Bosnia/Former Yugoslavia The Bosnian Conflict is a conflict with two parts, one included an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina; another is the Bosnian Genocide of the Bosniak people. The Conflict was caused in part by the splitting of Yugoslavia, during the early 1990s near the end of the cold war. The Bosnian Genocide coincided with Bosnian War, the genocide was a mass killing or ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak people and their culture, which occurred shortly after the…

“Heil Hitler!” Used as a motto, a command, and the words of a bad dream. Whether we have learned of the Holocaust through school, family, museums, art, or by our own curiosity we conclude that this event should always be remembered throughout the history of the entire world. We usually never hear about how the rest of the world reacted to the Holocaust and how inhumane other countries were while this disaster was happening. Everyone should know how to deal with upcoming situations relating to…

Darfur has claimed over 450,000 lives and has caused chaos in millions. In Darfur there are over 100 tribes and with these tribes there comes tension. The conflict in Darfur is one between Arab and non-Arab. In 2003 two non-Arab groups called the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement began to rebel against the sudanese government. Civilians of the same ethnic group as those rebels were targeted and were considered threats by the government. The…

In the late 1980’s, the African country of Sudan was involved in a brutal civil war that left over 20,000 children orphaned with no families to protect them or homes to live in. Many of these young children walked over a thousand miles through jungle and dessert terrain searching for refuge from the war. Many did not survive. Thousands of these children wondered for years in search of safety, eventually finding refuge in a camp in Kenya miles from their homes. They became known as the lost boys…

Understanding, and Awareness: Libya Libya is a country situated in the Maghreb region of Northern Africa, nearly all of the nation’s land mass is within the Sahara Desert. It’s bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. Tripoli is the Capital city of Libya. According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) fact book, Libya is home to over 6,653,210 people as of July 2017. Like…