Abdurahim Alderwish
Steven Carruthers
ELIC 300-307
March 26, 2015
Sudan’s Famine Famine is the scarcity of food on a large scale. The consequence of this phenomenon is starvation, epidemics and increasing of the mortality rate. Famine has many types or causes, such as the one that caused by human population growth, or by climatic fluctuations which has caused shortages in food, and a famine caused by humans. Other types of famine may generate by two types of causes which what happened in South Sudan. “Famine Looms in South Sudan, South Sudan is experiencing the world’s worst food security crisis, caused by drought, and by man-made conflict.” (editorials.voa.gov).United Nation has tried to resolve this problem but it was worthless. Finding
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With the continuation of the conflict for a longer period, the consequences will be deadly. If the conflict continues for a period of one year to six years, it will cost South Sudan between 22 billion and 28 billion dollars. (http://www.un.org) As well as the human cost of the conflict - and the mortality, hunger, and disease - has a significant impact on the economy. The United Nations linked the ceasefire to avoid the disaster of famine in the South Sudan, and it seems that this solution is not an easy thing to do to stop the conflicts. There are fundamental reasons to prolong the crisis in conflict zones. South Sudan has the traditional economic resources. In addition to those newly discovered- oil products- unfortunately, people live in a region of extreme poverty, which is the most prone to …show more content…
Without it, more people in South Sudan will die. The need for supporting them financially still huge. Almost 400 million dollars is still needed to support food security needs: almost a third of the population need direct food aid and almost two-thirds need livelihoods support.” (http://www.un.org) The US, the UK, the EU, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have been very generous in their support. In my view, I believe the solution should come from inside. South Sudanese should accept the outside intervention. People need help, but the South Sudan government and the opposition do not accept any political intervention from outside the country. If they accept to get help from the outside countries, the crisis could be solved. The solution is to allow the outside countries to invest inside the country and help citizens to work and live. Companies should be supervised by executives from outside, and hire the Sudanese, the profit can be divided equally to help the economy. The UN supervise the election, to make sure that everyone is following the orders. I think, that would help to stop the
There have been many famines that have greatly impacted Ethiopia. One of the famine that is very famous in Ethiopian history and World history is known as the Great Famine. Due to the lack of the support of the government and other organizations, about one million people died of starvation. The conditions of Ethiopia in the beginning of 1984 were not well. “The Ethiopian government predicted that the agricultural yield of the nation was going to be considerably lower in at the beginning of 1984 because there had been less rainfall than expected. However, preventive measures were not taken by either the government or the rest of the world to prevent the mass starva...
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...on people face a similar fate in Darfur….” says one website. They say that America made promises to prevent any more bloodshed in the country, but never held up that promise. “The Khartoum government has systematically obstructed access to Darfur and blocked international efforts to establish a relief program,” says the web page. Because of the lack of effort Darfur suffers from the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. In all of these events the UN will take steps after to rectify the situation and prevent it in the future. There is little to no way to guarantee that these kinds of tragedies will never happen again, however the UN can make steps to improve the world’s response and overall international and national laws to prevent future case as best as possible. Which is why the UN continues to update policies to keep up with the ever changing times.
It is due this circumstance that the fight in Darfur, which originated from conflict over land, water and additional capitals amongst black farmers and Arab nomads, has transformed into a gory tragedy. The Darfur crisis has exposed the racial issues in Sudan which had been ready to burst into flames for a long period time. What makes it a racial conflict is that the Muslim Arab Janjaweed militia, are attacking black African Muslims. Both sides share the same Muslim beliefs but cannot live in harmony. If the southerners are not awarded the same rights as the northerners, they will continue to fight.
After the withdraw of Egypt and Britain, Sudan has been run by a number rickety / unstable government groups and milit...
Darfur is located in Northeastern Africa. The genocide started in 1956, when war broke out, the genocide continued till July 2011, because South Sudan became their own country. The government had attacks on Darfur and Air Force bombings. There was mass of slaughtering and rape of men, women, and children. The tribe and citizens are targeted because the government got over thrown by a military and then the government forces bombed civilizes to facilitate exploitation. (Darfur Genocide, World Without Genocide)The government wanted Darfur to be used for oil exploration, but the citizens didn’t want to leave Darfur because that’s where they live and produce resources. Also the weather in Darfur was good for the people be...
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America started by setting up refugee camps, to relocate the Lost Boys within its own cities and was able to change the lives of thousands of boys who endured war, defeat, hurt and fear all through their childhoods. The significance of America’s involvement is emphasized in each source because it was an essential aid, support and hope for the Lost Boys of Sudan. Without America these lost boys may never have been discovered by the
Throughout Northern and Central Africa ethnic fighting and mass genocide has run rampant. Clashes between, diverse ethnic and cultural people has caused instability, these mass humanitarian disasters that can no longer be ignored. With the help of other nations South Sudan can go from another mass genocide waiting to happen, to a region supplier of much needed resources, with the help of other nations. In the 1990’s Rwanda genocide was basically ignored by the United States government and because of this hundreds of thousands were either killed or injured in the area. In the early 2000’s the war in Darfur, created a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur's non-Arabs. Again thousands of Africans were killed and the United States government and the American people ignored genocide.
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“815 million” worldwide still go hungry every day (Concern USA 1). Some states and countries have no food to eat so are forced to leave and use other coping mechanisms. Syria is in a complex state of famine due to droughts and population displacement.
... and trying to make them cooperate was the biggest flaw of the British colonialism. Then when that didn’t work out, the British developed the North far more than the South, thus creating resentment in the South. With the end of colonialism the British left a nation that was unstable politically and culturally. The region, culture, language, and historical differences between the South and North leads to two civil wars for independence. Which further leads into an ethnic conflict in South Sudan. If no action is taken to bring peace between the two. There is a threat of those ethnicity fighting over resources, which could then potentially lead into a territorial conflict. And if South Sudan further divides there could be a possibility of a power vacuum happening, creating more chaos. All it takes is a single spark to trigger a series of unfortunate events.
Furthermore, political instability causes uncertainty and, at its most extreme, complete economic breakdown. Take Sudan in Africa thi...
During the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, the federal government of Nigeria blocked all food shipments to Biafra, leading to widespread starvation. In 1993, a siege brought famine to parts of war-torn Angola. And in Sudan's long-running civil war, the northern-based government has used its control over food shipments to weaken insurgency groups in the south. Despite their seemingly apolitical humanitarian appeal, international food aid agencies invariably complicate the political picture. Sometimes food relief lets negligent governments off the hook; sometimes it even sustains repressive regimes.