There is a genocide, an enthnic cleansing if you will, still occurring in Darfur. Sparked from decades of famine, drought, and oppression it only gets worse as time goes on. With the rise of militia groups, the Sudanese government, in 2003, sent their own, well armed, well funded militia group to reek havoc in the area of Darfur.
The Sudanese governments military is mainly funded by oil revenues, the countries major money maker. Over 70% of oil profits go to the military. This poses a problem to the people of Darfur, as the largest of these oil fields lies in South darfur, while the government is in the North. UN action has been rare as both China and Russia benefit from Sudanese oil, and both Russia and China are veto powers on the Security Council.
450,000 people have been murdered, 2.5 million are hungry, and 4.5 are displaced.
It is a crisis that is complicated, multi faceted, and complex.
for more informatin, go to amnesty.org, i used this website while i wrote a research paper on the genocide in darfur. it's a great website!
Countless numbers of rapes, over an estimated 400,000 deaths, they also tourcher victiums that they find. wemon are sometimes killed just for trying to get water for their families to drink. Hope this helps!!! :)
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This is a very expansive and complicated question with a complicated answer and cannot be covered adequately in a few short sentences.
Please refer to the links on this page for a fuller understanding of the situation and current conditions.
Wikipedia on Darfurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
Amnesty USA on Darfurhttp://www.amnestyusa.org/darfur/darfur-history/page.do?id=1351103
On July 9, 2011 Sudan split into two countries.
North Sudan, led by dictator Omar al-Bashir, is going through a period of extreme internal unrest caused by acts of genocide against the black African minority by the North Sudanese Army in the Provinces of Darfur and North and South Kordofan, while South Sudan is suffering from widespread poverty as well as massive military deaths in bloody battles being fought with North Sudanese troops due to a border dispute.
Darfur was a war that began in February 2003 in Sudan. The war's origin goes back to land disputes between the locals. The crisis has been ongoing for a decade.
Genocide is currently taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The First Genocide of the 21st century is taking place right now Darfur, Sudan, and has been for roughly five years now. (February 2003) The First Genocide of the 21st century is taking place right now Darfur, Sudan, and has been for roughly five years now. (February 2003)
Darfur is a region in Western Sudan (formerly an independent sultanate) approximately the size of France. The population in Darfur is 8.5 million people of which 2.5 million people had to relocate due to civil war in the region.
I am in Sudan right now!
well there is always the animal genocide that occurs everyday.
Italy has contributed a lot of money to Sudan and Darfur, and also voted for the UN security council resolution 1769, allowing hybrid UN/African Union peacekeepers to enter sudan. The problem now is the Sudanese government is preventing these peacekeepers from entering Darfur, but they are working on it
The duration of Darfur Now is 1.63 hours.
Darfur Now was created on 2007-11-02.
there's a dictatorship in it right now. :(
the U.N. (united nations) is now taking an act in this travesty in Sudan. They have finally helped in 2005 and has been doing so till today.
Sadly, it is happening almost all around the world right now.
right now most cheetahs are threatened and they are in danger...