What is the land area in square miles of the northern region of Sudan?
Hope this helps you understand Darfur Issue: The following is what I found: (All materials are based on the Economist, a British weekly journal, a staunch supporter for Iraq Invasion) 1) Sudan is running the longest civil war on Earth. Wars were waged among the tribes in the South, the West and partly the North. They had been in fighting since the 1950s, when the old colonial masters, the English and French, left. This Sudan government, sovereign in name, had never been in full control. 2) The Sudan government is of black-Islamist, who took side with the Arabs whenever the Israel-Arab conflicts flared up. That certainly cannot be tolerated by Israel and US. Sudan once gave refuge to Bin Laden but drove him out under US pressure. It also tasted US bombs during the Clinton Administration in 1998 when a pharmaceutical plant was a target. Sudan was still under US embargo. 3) In the South, non-Arab blacks, with American support , gradually got the upper hand in the struggle, and negotiated
