Sudan's Sad Story

Mention Sudan, and most minds run to the ongoing crisis in the country's western Darfur region. Sadly, that disastrous civil war is just the latest in a series of conflicts that have all but consumed Sudan's modern history.

Before the fighting in Darfur even began, Sudan was torn by 50 years of north-south civil war, punctuated only by a ceasefire between 1972 and 1983. And the roots of all that civil strife run centuries deep. Time to tell Sudan's sad story.

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