darfur conflict

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Faculty of Business Economics Department of International Relations

GEED 162: The Power of Language and Persuasion : 

MOHAMED OSMAN ABDELWAHAB 074012 SPRING 2009 SEMESTER PROJECT POWEPOINT PRESENTATION THE BACKGROUND OF DARFUR CONFLICT GEED 162: The Power of Language and Persuasion

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Sudan to begin with is the largest country in Africa and in the middle east, it contains many ethnic groups and tribes, the two major ethnic backgrounds is Arabs and Africans. Due to this diversity the country experienced the longest civil war in the world , which was between the Arab Muslims in the north and black Africans Christians in the south.

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Sudan contains 26 states and Darfur is one of the biggest states of Sudan it equals the size of France , it contains many tribes most of these tribes are rather Arab tribes or African tribes but both of them are Muslims , which means that the case of Darfur its kind of different from the civil war in the south which had been stopped after signing a peace agreement between the south and the north ended this war.

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the Darfur conflict started long time ago but the official and the organized war started on 2003 . In the next slide is a map showing the map of Sudan and pointing on Darfur in particular ..

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The conflict started as tribe wars but in 2003 many international organizations accused the Sudanese government that It has participated in a joint attack with a militia called janjaweed which are from Arabic ethnicity background and assisted them with money and weapons against the African ethnicity tribes background movements.

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There’s two main active movements in the region which are justice and equality movement and Sudan people liberation movement. Those movements argue that the central government in Khartoum which mainly from northern Arabs that they ignore the development in the Darfur region with a highly developed north.

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These tribes being fighting against the government and the Arabs militias since 2003 and these war resulted “about 450,000 people have been killed, and 3,000,000 people have been displaced”. This conflict resulted a very big humanitarian crisis , which can be considered as one of the hugest crisis in Africa and in the world. In the next slide some pictures showing some of the image of the crisis.

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an African Sudanese woman with her sick baby in one of the refugees camps in Darfur .

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On on 04.03.2009 “the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir , President of Sudan, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is suspected of being criminally responsible, as an indirect (co-)perpetrator, for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property. This is the first warrant of arrest ever issued for a sitting Head of State by the ICC”

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some people argue that this warrant issued against Sudanese president its not a fair warrant especially with no any warrant had been issued against any of the rebels movements leaders , in the same time most of European countries with addition to US support this warrant and argue that the Sudanese president is the person directly responsible to these humanitarian crisis in Darfur .

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To conclude this issue we could state that this issue is still an ongoing conflict many tries been performed to end it up but still no promised solution showed up , a recent negotiations took place in Doha, Qatar between rebels leaders and Sudanese government and reached an agreement of continuing the negotiations to reach a final and convincible solution.

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I would like to thank you all for your attention and your time to go through my slides , and hope you had benefit from it. For any further information or questions please don’t hesitate to contact me , I would be pleasured to offer you any assistance needed. E-mail : m2002o@hotmail.com 074012@emu.edu.tr

Refrences : 

http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/0EF62173-05ED-403A-80C8-F15EE1D25BB3.htm http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2004/rp04-051.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur Refrences