Anyone know much about Darfur?

Question

I just want to know about Darfur alittle? I only know the very--very basic details about it.

Answer 1

I think this is about accurate, there is a genocide going on there. Woman and children's villages are getting raped and slaughtered there. Oprah did a special on it. I would just google it i'm sure you will come up with many sources of information. I have, when the oprah episode first aired like about 8 months ago. There were also some film students that went there and did a documentary on it.

Answer 2

I only know a little about it--i saw something on the news where george clooney and his dad went there and i guess they are trying to raise money and/or awareness to Darfur. I know that it is an impoverished country but that is really all i know.

Answer 3

The early history of Darfur is dominated by the influence of the Marrah Mountains. Most of the region is semi-arid plain and cannot support a large and complex civilization, while the Marrah Mountains offer plentiful water. The Daju people created the first known Darfuri civilization based in the mountains, though they left no records besides a list of kings. The Tunjur displaced the Daju in the fourteenth century and introduced Islam. The Tunjur sultans intermarried with the Fur and sultan Soleiman (reigned c.1596 to c.1637) is considered the founder of the Keira dynasty. Darfur became a great power of the Sahel under the Keira dynasty, expanding its borders as far east as the Atbarah River and attracting immigrants from Bornu and Bagirmi. During the mid-18th century the country was wracked by conflict between rival factions, and external war with Sennar and Wadai. In 1875, the weakened kingdom was destroyed by the Egyptian government (itself under British colonization) set up in Khartoum, largely through the machinations of al-Zubayr Rahma, a businessman who was competing with the dar over access to slaves and ivory in Bahr el Ghazal to the south of Darfur.

The Darfuris were restive under Egyptian rule, but were no more predisposed to accept the rule of the self proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad, when his forces defeated the British in Darfur in 1883. When Ahmad's successor, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, himself a Darfuri, demanded that the pastoralist tribes provide soldiers, several tribes rose up in revolt. Following the overthrow of Abdallahi at Omdurman in 1898 by a British force, the new Anglo-Egyptian condominium government recognized Ali Dinar as the sultan of Darfur and largely left the dar to its own affairs except for a nominal annual tribute. During the First World War, the British became concerned that the sultanate might fall under the influence of Turkey, invaded and incorporated Darfur into Sudan in 1916. Under colonial rule, financial and administrative resources were directed to the tribes of central Sudan near Khartoum to the detriment of the outlying regions such as Darfur.

This pattern of skewed development continued following national independence in 1956. To this was added an element of political instability caused by the proxy wars between Sudan, Libya and Chad. The influence of an ideology of Arab supremacy propagated by Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi that began to be acted upon by Darfuris, including those identified as "Arab" and "African". A famine in the mid-1980s disrupted many societal structures and led to the first significant fighting amongst Darfuris. A low level conflict continued for the next 15 years, with the government coopting and arming "Arab" militias against its enemies. The fighting reached a peak in 2003 with the beginning of the Darfur conflict, in which the resistance coalesced into a roughly cohesive rebel movement. The conflict soon came to be regarded as one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

The Darfur conflict is an ongoing armed conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from the camel-herding tribes of the Abbala, and the mostly agricultural non-Baggara people of the region. The conflict began in July 2003. Unlike the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, in Darfur most of the residents are Muslim, as are the Janjaweed. The Darfur Peace Agreement signed May 5, 2006 hoped to end the conflict, but fighting has continued nonetheless.

Answer 4

that is noticeably humorous. in case you've been paying any interest for the previous, oh - i do not recognize, countless THOUSAND YEARS OF historic previous, you would recognize that religious enthusiasts like muslims (and christians) don't like all and sundry it truly is different than themselves, and could kill, rape, brutalize, and otherwise subjegate all and sundry who would not comply with their cultural criteria (or maybe then you honestly stand a good probability of having someone factor the finger at you). once you wake the f**ok up, and quit ingesting the kool-help, it without notice will grow to be a lot clearer why there is not any answer in the midsection east. those anybody is loopy, and by using taking facets (or helping both aspect) we are not helping all and sundry notwithstanding those who favor to proceed to spread chaos.

Answer 5

It is the newest liberal cause in the world. They expect America to be the world's police, yet criticize everything that he does in Iraq.