Khartoum
ICYMI, or in case you haven't even been paying attention, Sudan is civil warring again.
There's something really instructive in all this.
I'm so old that I remember a time long long ago, the last decade of the last century and the first decade of this, when Sudan was also embroiled in civil war. The world community at the time assumed that it was purely a religious struggle, with the northern Muslim three-fourths oppressing the crypto-Christian animist southern one-fourth. Therefore, the same world community helmed the secession of the south, insert ironic Rebel Yell here. Therefore, South Sudan, capital Juba, is the world's newest country, independent in 2011.
But now, what remains of Sudan is now flaring back up. Nearly all the action is in its capital, Khartoum. Incidentally, Sudan's median age is 20. This time, it's about somebody or another croaking, and two prominent somebody elses are vying for absolute control of the dump.
Which makes me wonder how much of the previous civil war really had anything to do with religion to begin with, or whether religion just happened to be a precipitating and animating cause to more proximate fundamental causes. I do know that a lot of black African "warfare" is really more than enhanced street gangs bing banging each other.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Kony Current Year?
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