Sudan´s "hundred-years war"

Sudan´s government uncooperative conduct continues as it ignores International Criminal court recommnedations. In June 19^th a declaration demanded the handing over of a government minister to be tried at the Hague in relation to Darfour atrocities, which was matched by Khartoum refusal. The “Darfour war” witnesses the south fighting against the authoritarian north in demand of more equality and justice. To the great entaglement of the situation, the land has oil, is demographically booming and agriculturally starving, as the desert keeps swallowing villages and fields. Civil war, separatism, displacement of people and pillaging is endemic.

In the struggle are now engaging other countries, Chad and Uganda, drawn in by the huge displacement of people that affects their own economies, as jeopardizes the uneasy balance of water and land resources.

Notoriously, the region itself is extremely volatile. More and more countries are falling or being dragged into the region features: instability and famine. As said, neighbouring Chad and Uganda are meddling in the power void of the Sudanese failed-state fall as it was the case between Eritrea and Sudan itself and is the case between Ethiopia and Somalia. The picture is similar to other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, only that the region hosts a lot more conflicts than elsewhere in the continent, and death toll is the highest. What is more important, the resources conflict pattern is here more apparent and produces interesting field-data. As the Sahara draws closer to villages and towns, agriculture and herding knee in front of pillaging and looting as sorts of economic behaviour.

According to a late UN-led peacekeeping forces official, West Darfur crisis seems so interrelated with Chad situation that a single surgical solution seems impossible. While Sudan fends off accusations of supporting Chadian rebels, Chad makes the same over rebels in Darfur, with reference to the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) attack of Khartoum in early May. Intelligence seems to validate both accusations, and it demands for a broader UN mandate, perhaps linking it also to the UN mission in CAR (Central African Republic).