Simple cause of conflict in darfur?

Question

I'm writing a paper on ethnic conflicts and I'm supposed to briefly describe whats going on in Darfur.

I've searched around and gotten confused.

***What are the causes of the current conflic in Darfur? Please make it simple to understand.

Answer 1

The conflict taking place in Darfur has many interwoven causes. While rooted in structural inequality between the center of the country around the Nile and the 'peripheral' areas such as Darfur, tensions were exacerbated in the last two decades of the twentieth century by a combination of environmental calamity, political opportunism and regional politics. A point of particular confusion has been the characterization of the conflict as one between 'Arab' and 'African' populations, a dichotomy that one historian describes as "both true and false".

The starting point of the conflict in the Darfur region is typically said to be 26 February 2003, when a group calling itself the Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) publicly claimed credit for an attack on Golo, the headquarters of Jebel Marra District. Even prior to this attack, however, a conflict had erupted in Darfur, as rebels had already attacked police stations, army outposts and military convoys, and the government had engaged in a massive air and land assault on the rebel stronghold in the Marrah Mountains. The rebels' first military action was a successful attack on an army garrison on the mountain on 25 February 2002 and the Sudanese government had been aware of a unified rebel movement since an attack on the Golo police station in June 2002. Chroniclers Julie Flint and Alex de Waal state that the beginning of the rebellion is better dated to 21 July 2001, when a group of Zaghawa and Fur met in Abu Gamra and swore oaths on the Qur'an to work together to defend against government-sponsored attacks on their villages.

Answer 2

Religious fundamentalism is the cause of the conflict in Darfur because people have differences in religious beliefs affecting their politics and government.

Answer 3

the people who are raveged by poverty and war around darfur went to darfur, they want idependence and to take over darfur from sudan. there for the sudanese people are fighting with the people who started living there trying to take their land. not all their tactics are good that is for sure but you have to think will americans allow cubans to take over florida if they said they wanted to have idenpendece? no it would be a war.

Answer 4

Islamic expansionism and hatred of all that are not Muslim

Answer 5

cincinnatus said it right.