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Challenges Facing Africa

1990's- Present Darfur,Sudan

In Darfur a genocide had taken place. Sudan has a polictal problem. Many people in Sudan wanted to take over power. Sudan's current president Omar al-Bashir took power in 1989.This shows how much Darfur needed democracy. The genocide in Darfur has taken 400,000 lives and injured 2,500,000 people and every month more than 100 people died. The government neglects the country and the U.S needed to take over the country so the violence and the genocide will stop. Another problem in Darfur is that it is home of racially mixed tribes. That created problems and disagreements with different groups in the country of Sudan. America’s economy has been feeding into theirs to help the situation, but it came to no avail. Women especially were brutally tortured. Many of the women in Darfur Sudan were beaten and raped also. Then in the year 2004 the United States of America charged Darfur with genocide. Basically it was the U.S.A diagnosing Sudan with a national disease. In the topic of disease, Darfur also had to deal with AIDS. All countries in Africa had to, but Darfur’s AIDS problem was overlapping many of their unwanting problems.

Present Darfur Problems Now theese days in Darfur there is still an AIDS crisis and the genocide has gotten even worse. The death rate in the Darfur region has gotten even higher.The effect that the problem in Darfur has caused has America in Darfur trying to fix it. The diseases in Sudan such as sexually transmitted ones such as AIDS has impacted the countries population dearly. Many women in Darfur who were raped caugt there disease from their rapists. The Janjaweed who were the ones who attacked the general population of black ancestry are still to this day continuing the genocide. The Jangaweeed is a military that distain the black population in Darfur. This is because they are different from the general population because they have Arabian ancestry. Sudan signed a "Peace agreement" in 2006. Then the country of Sudan still has another problem that all countries in Africa still face and that is hunger. Several million have died of hunger in Africa and this includes Sudan's Darfur.

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Timeline

The Sudanese government signs a ceasefire with the two main rebel groups after talks in neighbouring Chad.
 * 2003 ** February-April - Darfur rebels attack several towns.The Khartoum government sends introops, and there are attacks by pro-government militia known as Janjaweed, with entire villages reported as being razed.
 * 2003 ** October - The United Nations seeks urgent aid for thousands of refugees crossing the border from Darfur into Chad to the west
 * 2004 ** April - A UN official describes the campaign against Darfur's non-Arab population as "ethnic cleansing."
 * 2004 ** September - The United States describes atrocities being committed in Darfur as "genocide," although this assessment is not shared by the UN.
 * 2005 ** January - The UN Security Council says individuals who commit atrocities in Darfur can be sent before the International Criminal Court


 * 2006 **  March - The African Union agrees in principle to have its 7,000-strong force, which has suffered from funding problems, replaced by UN troops.
 * 2007 ** September - Ten members of the African Union force are killed in one of the deadliest attacks to date.
 * 2008 ** October, 16 – Bashir pledges more cooperation with UNAMID to secure the passage of aid convoys, along with up to $350 million of spending on development in the region

Qatar hosts first peace talks in nearly two years between Sudanese government and Jem rebels over the Darfur conflict
 * 2009 ** February – Sudanese army declares the capture of a town in Darfur after three weeks of clashes with Jem fighters.

WHY WE CHOSE IT We choose this project because not that many people were doing Africa. We didn’t spend much time on Africa in regular class so we wanted to elaborate on the topic. It took a long time to chose what we were going to talk about in Africa's topic.

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