Geopolitically, southern Sudan is a piece of black Africa within Arab borders; it is what Samuel Huntington calls a civilizational fault line between Islamic civilization and African civilization. 77 The core of the south Sudan problem, thus, is the issue of self-determination for an African people that rejects Arabization and Islamization. The ...

1989年6月30日 · Sudan has problematic borders with all its African neighbors and is fighting a religious-ethnic war in its south. Hence, it can ill afford hostilities with Egypt, its strongest neighbor. Nevertheless, matters came to a head on December 31, 1992, when the Sudanese government complained to the U.N. Security Council about Egyptian attempts to ...

1984年5月19日 · During the first Sudan civil war, Israeli assistance was evident among the southern guerrilla forces. In northern Iraq, Israeli intelligence agents supported the Kurds. But it was in Lebanon that the Jewish state played the card of a Christian enclave to its fullest.

5 天之前 · For some of the most powerful, see Tim Sandler, “Africa’s Invisible Slaves,” The Boston Phoenix, June 30-July 6, 1995; G. Lewthwaite and G. Kane, “Where Children Live in Bondage,” The Baltimore Sun, June 16-18, 1996; and Christian Solidarity International Reports on Southern Sudan, available from CSI-UK, P.O. Box 99, New Malden ...

The history of the conflict traces back to an agreement from the colonial era when the 1929 Anglo-Egyptian agreement was concluded between Egypt and Great Britain regarding the utilization of the waters of the Nile River, with Britain representing its upstream colonies in the Nile River Basin—Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika (today ...

2025年1月14日 · The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars is mainly devoted to a discussion of the historical structure of north-south relations throughout Sudan’s modern history. Most noteworthy among them are the 1972 Addis Ababa peace agreement and the regional government, and the rekindling of what he calls the second civil war since 1983.

2024年10月22日 · In southern Syria generally, there is no popular support base for Hezbollah or even the ruling regime in Damascus. I would like to add that a month ago, Israel assassinated a person from the village of Ghadir al-Bustan [in al-Qunaytra] who worked in the village of al-Rafid and was called Khattab Abd al-Mawla al-Khidhr, while he worked on the ...

It doesn’t pass religious judgments, but it tries to develop in a contemporary idiom an understanding of Christianity. Take East Africa, for example, where Muslim-Christian relations have been sensitive, particularly as one moves south of the equator. A case in point is southern Sudan, where a terrible war has been taking place for years.

2006年3月8日 · It is not “Wahhabis” who conducted, in Col. Ojukwu’s words, the “Jihad” against the Christian Ibos in southern Nigeria who felt compelled to declare the independence of Biafra. It was not “Wahhabis” who have been making war on black Christians and animists in the southern Sudan, or now insufficiently “Arab” Muslims in Darfur.

2011年11月1日 · This will naturally pose problems for the million or so southerners still residing in the north, as well as the Christian populations residing in Sudan’s southern border states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, both of which were granted a degree of autonomy on religious and cultural issues as part of the 2005 peace deal that recognized the ...