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| Southern Sudan: a disaster in the making |
| 2011-01-16 |
| Last Sunday, the Toronto Star ran a column that said in the referendum that will make Southern Sudan independent from the Muslim North, "there is no crisis and no war looming." That observation alone seemed curiously unwarranted, considering that this has been Africa's longest running civil war. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #11 "Only please to call it research." With a Russian accent, of course. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-16 22:07 |
| #10 We call that 'journalism'. You maybe, I call it "(academic) research". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-16 17:54 |
| #9 Shieldwolf Hi !; I like your train of thought. Great promise and left alone perhaps. Greed and fear my wreck your train of thought. It is truly something to be hoped for. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-01-16 17:30 |
| #8 LOL Hellfish - you are so right in so few words. South has the oil North has the Arabs You can't separate an Arab from oil he thinks should be his. And Africa? When the machetes come out it's genocide time so given the Africans want out and the Arabs are greedy....... the end result after this peaceful ballot will be.......? Doesn't matter how many years it takes to get there when the rub comes the machetes will come out |
| Posted by: anon1 2011-01-16 16:54 |
| #7 All the data in the article contradicts it's conclusion. We call that 'journalism'. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-01-16 16:52 |
| #6 Southern Sudan - as a sovereign nation - could invite in US military assistance. Let the Janjaweed mass to attack. A-10 heaven. Martyrdom for all |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-16 16:42 |
| #5 Southern Sudan may not be the shining economic engine of Africa, but it is poised to grow rapidly because of oil and food production. Given a decade or two, it will be a country capable of feeding its own and exporting much needed food to its neighbors, sort of like Rhodesia did back in the day. The only way for the Northerners to stall or damage that possibility is to turn loose their Jajaweed genocide troops again. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2011-01-16 16:23 |
| #4 Southern Sudan has, or at least has had, some unusual allies. Remember that there have been arrests of individuals trying to smuggle weapons in to support them against the North. These include a Priest, a Nigerian woman, the Israelis, the CIA, etc. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-16 15:59 |
| #3 Africa always wins. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2011-01-16 12:46 |
| #2 All the data in the article contradicts it's conclusion. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-16 03:54 |
| #1 actually north Sudan looks to be the more likely disaster the north has a massive, corrupt, inefficient govt including a number of militia that don't get along very well(which is one reason they lost a lot of soldiers during their attempts to control the south) --- without the south's oil and food production they are in trouble |
| Posted by: lord garth 2011-01-16 00:23 |