Sudan

Salva Dut Biography When Salva Dut was just 11 years old war broke out in his country. He and 17,000 others fled to Ethiopia. In 1990 they had to flee again. Salva led about 1,500 boys to Kenya to another refugee camp. They stayed there for about six years. In 1996 Salva and 3,600 other refugee boys were chosen by the U.S state Department and the United Nations to go to the US, Australia, or Canada. Salva went to the US. At the time he spoke very little English and didn’t have much education.…

the now scare resources of food, water, land and commodities. Both the Arab and African ethnic groups of the area began to “polarize along ethnic lines”. The genocide began uncontrollable in 2003 when two rebel groups infiltrated the government of Sudan. Cases of rape, abductions, brutalising and murder (even cases…

Throughout my life my parents have done their best to give me a broader perspective of the world, as well as teach me the value of having unwavering principles, staying physically fit, and working hard in academics. It’s my goal to join the United States Marine Corps and use these qualities that I have made my own to be the best officer I can be. I was privileged to have a unique childhood. Until I was nine years old I lived in Kenya, East Africa due to my dad’s job as a Missionary Bush Pilot.…

against him as well as other international groups that fought his regime in 2012. Around that time the United States provided more than $560 million in humanitarian assistance specifically benefiting LRA-affected populations in Uganda, CAR, the DRC, and Sudan, in addition to countrywide assistance in the affected countries that could benefit individuals affected by LRA violence. On November 22, 2011, the African…

Violence in the Darfur region has been going on since 2003; as a result, the mass amount of the displaced population, dead citizens, and the possible loss of a future generation has diminished the improvement of the country’s political, economic, and educational systems. The continued violence in Darfur has caused more than 3 million men, women, and children to be displaced from their homes and villages (Save Darfur, n.d., p. 2). This is a cause for major concern because those forced from their…

Connected Life Journeys In “A Long Walk To Water” written by Linda Sue Park. There are two stories, one of a boy named Salva, and the other of a girl named Nya. They both lived in Southern Sudan; although at different times. Salva’s taking place in 1985, and Nya’s taking place in 2008. Salva and Nya’s life journeys both involved war, walking, and family. In the end their lives connected each other together in a beautiful way. Salva and Nya’s journeys are alike because they both had to…

of a murderous dictator would be Omar al-Bashir. Bashir was born in January of 1944 in the Nile Valley of northern Sudan. He joined the military at sixteen and slowly worked his way up to being a torturous dictator. The conniving dictator Napoleon manipulates situations to get to the top in the short novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. Which is a mirror image of the dictator of Sudan. They are similar in their rise to power, laws and polices, and even their cruelties and atrocities. Although…

What would you do if your country wasn’t powerful enough to defend yourself, your family, and your friends? Would you leave or fight back? The United Nation peacekeepers make it so you wouldn’t have to do either. The United Nations was established right after World War II originally made up of fifty countries and now is a coalition of one hundred ninety three countries throughout the world that came together to help change and protect the world. In order to protect the world they created an…

the President of the Republic of Sudan since October 16, 1993, he was charged with many counts of heinous crimes. This was including being a co-perpetrator for counts of crimes against humanity, which included: murder, extermination, torture and rape, two counts of war crimes, three counts of genocide and more ("The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir", 2016). Clearly this was an extremely large case for Africa in all, it not only affected the people of Sudan, but also affected all of…

Uganda bordering the Africa’s largest “Lake Victoria.” Uganda is agricultural land locked country found in East Africa bordered by Kenya in east, South Sudan in north, Democratic Republic of Congo in west, Rwanda in south west and Tanzania in South. It is the country with the largest number of refugees second to Turkey in the whole world from South Sudan, Congo, Somalia and Burundi passing through Rwanda. Uganda is commonly referred to as “The pearl of Africa” because of its climate. “ Tropical…