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Sudan: Northern Sudan
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Ethnic killings are taking place in large scale in the Darfur region of Sudan. A peace agreement between north and south in Sudan has been signes, but the situation in Darfur is unchanged and still extremely critical. This not a small local conflict, but as UN officials has put it: "the world's greatest humanitarian disaster". The Darfur region is a huge area, but apparently too far away for the politicians to care. The world is still hesitating! Sadly and embarrassing, not even the African leaders has been doing a real effort to stop the systematic killings in Sudan and the related conflicts in Northern Uganda.
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The WNBF has operated primarily in northwestern Uganda, using bases in southern Sudan and in eastern Zaire. Its political roots trace back to breakaway forces of the defeated Ugandan army of former President Milton Obote under the command of Col. Juma Oris. The WNBF carried out ambushes and planted landmines within four kilometers of the town of Arua in northern Uganda as late as 1996. During the fighting in southern Sudan in March 1997, the rebels were dislodged as their base at Morobo was destroyed.160 Interviews with former LRA abductees conducted by Human Rights Watch in northern Uganda in April 1998 suggest that the remnants of the WNBF joined the LRA at the latter’s Aru camp shortly after the March fighting, which was in turn attacked by a combined UPDF/SPLA force on April 9-10, 1997.
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Christian Solidarity International (CSI), a Christian human rights organization, redeemed 1,783 black African slaves during a fact-finding trip to Northern Bahr El Ghazal, Sudan, on April 12-17, 1999. The slaves, mainly women and children, had been captured as war booty by the armed forces of the Government of Sudan (GOS), in particular by the Popular Defence Force (PDF) during raids on villages in the borderlands between Northern and Southern Sudan. The GOS conducts such raids as an instrument of the jihad (Islamic holy war) it has consistently declared against the ethnic and religious minorities who resist its policies of forced Islamization and Arabization.
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The Bishop's diocese is presently split in two, with the northern half controlled by the fundamentalist Islamic government of Sudan. Though he cannot return to the north, the Bishop continues to minister to the southern portion of the diocese. He travels there at great personal risk to deliver aid and perform his pastoral duties.
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[T]here is Sudan. It is a country of 33 million people, Africa's largest country, located between Egypt and Ethiopia. It is profoundly divided between northern and southern areas of the country:
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