Starting in the 1980s, drought, famine and the spread of the deserts caused increased competition for land, severely upsetting the structure of Darfur society. Farmers had claimed every available bit of land to farm for food, closing off traditional routes used by the herders. The herders, desperate to feed and water their animals in a desert, dry landscape, tried to force the southern routes open, attacking farmers who attempted to block their paths. normally conflicts were settled with little or no violence by people. These were stopped by the Bashir regime after it came to power in a group in 1989, leaving no set plan for resolving disputes peacefully. In the ongoing genocide, African farmers and others in Darfur are being exported to camps and murdered by the Janjaweed. The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and moved over 2,500,000 people. the common way of killing was to rape the young women and then shoot them to death. For men, the most common way of killing was just to beat them to death or shoot them as well. More than one hundred people continue to die each day. The Sudanese government appears to not care to address the human rights crisis in the region and has not taken the necessary steps to stop the Janjaweed. In June 2005, the ICC tried ending the killings in Darfur by making investigations into human rights violations in Darfur. The government of Sudan refused to cooperate with the investigations and ended up not working. On March 4, 2009 Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, became the first president to be tried for his war crimes by ICC for running a group of mass killing, rape against civilians in Darfur. The arrest warrant for Bashir and arrest warrants issued by the ICC for former Sudanese Minister of State for the Ahmad Harun and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb. Darfur today continues to suffer and the problems facing Sudan cannot be resolved until peace is secured in Darfur. UN estimates, 2.7 million Darfuris remain in camps.
GDP: $93.760 billion GDP per capita$2,657.925.
life expectancy: m)60 f)63
HIV rate: less than 1%
Sudan's main industries are: oil, textiles, cotton, cement
Gov.: President, runs everything
peace/freedom: none, genocide is still on, social unrest, murder, not safe.
GDP: $93.760 billion GDP per capita$2,657.925.
life expectancy: m)60 f)63
HIV rate: less than 1%
Sudan's main industries are: oil, textiles, cotton, cement
Gov.: President, runs everything
peace/freedom: none, genocide is still on, social unrest, murder, not safe.