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Sudan: Western Sudan
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Sudan is a huge country. It is about the size of Western Europe. The marking feature of the country is the Nile river, formed by the White Nile and the Blue Nile which meet in the capital city. In general the country is flat. The exceptions are the coastal mountains in the east, the Nuba Mountains, and the far western mountains. There is ... a marked distinction between the north and south.
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Covering 966,757 square miles (2,503,890 square kilometers), the Republic of the Sudan is the largest country in Africa. The Sudan is located in the northeastern part of the continent, where it has many neighbors. It is bordered by Egypt on the north and Libya on the northwest. Chad lies along the western border and the Central African Republic lies to the southwest.
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Africa's largest country in land area, Sudan is dominated by the Nile and its tributaries, with mountains rising along its Red Sea coast and along the western border with Chad. Sudan's name in Arabic means "land of the blacks."
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The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan continues to deteriorate in the face of waning international attention to the crisis. People are enduring targeted attacks, vast insecurity, as well as widespread hunger and disease.
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Sudan is the largest country on the African continent and arguably one of the most complex. It is a microcosm of humanitarian challenges: in the western region of Darfur about 2 million people (one third of the population) have been displaced by a conflict that broke out in 2003; meanwhile, South Sudan is struggling to rebuild and recover from more than two decades of civil war and in the east chronic food insecurity, underdevelopment and sporadic conflict are major concerns.
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In August 2007, Stephen Gowans notes that: "Many Western activists have rallied around calls for sanctions on Sudan and UN intervention in Darfur. But a review of recent Western interventions in the world’s trouble spots suggests their faith is misplaced. While the US and its allies, and the UN Security Council, point to lofty goals as the basis for their interventions, the true goals are invariably shaped by the economic interests of the corporations and investment banks that dominate policy making in Western countries. Worse, intervention has typically led to the deterioration of humanitarian crises, not their amelioration." [3]
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