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The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2020, between forces of the government and opposition forces. The Civil War caused rampant human rights abuses, including forced displacement, ethnic massacres, and killings of journalists by various parties.
Second Sudanese Civil War: Background Q & A: The Darfur Crisis, Esther Pan, Council on Foreign Relations, cfr.org; Price of Peace in Africa: Agreement in Sudan Between Government and Rebel; Photojournalist's Account – Displacement of Sudan's second civil war; In pictures: Sudan trek – of returning refugees after the war, BBC, 14 June 2005
The First Sudanese Civil War (also known as the Anyanya Rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of the rebels, a term in the Madi language which means 'snake venom') [24] was fought from 1955 to 1972 between the northern part of Sudan and the southern Sudan region which demanded representation and more regional autonomy.
The Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile was an armed conflict and insurgency in the Sudanese states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile (known as the Two Areas [18]) between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N), a northern affiliate of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in South Sudan.
The total death toll from the second civil war in South Sudan is estimated at more than two million, most of them South Sudanese civilians. Four million South Sudanese were displaced and have been gradually returning since the end of the war. [20] Supplying the returnees is a problem, as South Sudan's agriculture was also severely affected by ...
At independence, South Sudan was at war with at least seven armed groups. [47] According to UN figures, the various conflicts affected nine of its ten states, with tens of thousands displaced. [47] Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) also operates in a wide area that includes South Sudan. [48]
In 1990 Sudan faced the start of a 2-year drought and food shortage, [75] leading to Phase II of the OLS being approved by both the Government of Sudan and the SPLA. [74] The US, UN, and other donors attempted to mount a coordinated international relief effort in both north and south Sudan to prevent a catastrophe.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has had direct conversations with countries accused of fueling the conflict in Sudan and has encouraged regional states to press Iran not to engage in the war, U.S ...