DARFUR

 by Bob anderson

Explain the origins of the crisis.

There is no pin pointing exactly when the crisis in Darfur commenced, but it has escalated into a catastrophic disaster. To fully understand the origin of the problems in Darfur you need to understand the history of Sudan.   Sudan was a  British colony until 1956, its independence was won at the cost of a civil war. The president Omar Hassan al Bashir and his party, called the National Congress Party,  gained power in a military coup in 1989. The government is situated in the capital Khartoum. Sudan is 52% non-Arab or Black African, 39% Arab, and 6% other. Immense inequalities exist among the different regions with most of the wealth and power concentrated in Khartoum, Khartoum has witnessed a recent growth in wealth due to the commodities prices (most notably oil), which have created a booming economy primarily in and around the capital city. The governments policies of neglect, marginalization, economic exploitation, and religious oppression have created enormous tensions between the Government of Sudan and other regions of the country.

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This inequality between ethnic groups has caused countless rebellions, and brutal retaliations by the government. The present crisis in Darfur initiated when hostilities flared between Arab Nomadic herdsmen and non-Arab African farmers in an area of Western Sudan. These conflicts erupted because of n creasing desertification causing the nomadic herdsmen to be driven onto the still fertile farmland belonging to the non Arab- African farmers. These tribal hostilities exploded at around the same time non-Arab tribes rebelled against Khartoum for its historic neglect of the region. This rebellion and the start of a tribal conflict gave the government an excuse to ...

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