• Over 60,000 citizens moved apart from their countries. • Destroyed harvests • A great number of mined zones • Monumental military expenses Current Situation Ethiopia has maintained its independence throughout its monarchy; it was established as a socialist state in 1974, and it remained as a regime until 1991 when a coalition of rebels finally destroyed it. It now has a constitution and public, multiparty elections. Italy, the former colonial ruler of Eritrea, disbanded it in 1952. In 1991, Ethiopia fought for their independence until 1991, year in which its rebel forces defeated Ethiopian military.
Right from the start of their new found republic, the people of Somalia felt cheated out of land due to the fact that other nations did not recognize their republic as being official. The dictator by the name of General Mohamed Siyaad Barre rose to power in this newfound Somalian republic. Barre came to power when Abdirashid Ali
2008 (April): The UN predict that 300,000 people have been killed in the five year Darfur conflict. 2008 (May): Sudanese government bombs hit schools and market places in Darfur, killing 13 civilians. UNHCR withdraws its staff from sites on the Chad/Sudan border citing insecurity. 2008 (June): Northern and Southern forces begin intense fighting over the disputed oil-rich town of Abyei. 2008 (July): The ICC calls for the arrest of President Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
Then, things got worst. A famine of “Old Testament proportions” swept through the nation, starving more than 300,000 Somalis in the process. A warlord from the Hawiye clan by
Jacky Sosa 2nd Block Darfur Genocide: Final Draft One million, one million living and breathing people like us, who are a part of this magnificent world, are tragically enduring the most horrendous, heart-breaking, and sadly, too familiar term people, just like us could ever imagine. Genocide, the systematic extermination of a national, ethnical, racial, or religiously group of people. The unfortunate victim this time? Darfur in West Sudan, Africa. "In recent years, the people of Darfur have been systematically attacked by the Sudanese army and by proxy-militia controlled by them as well.
Having figured this out the United Nations sent The United Nations Commission of Inquiry to investigate (More). Sudan band aid for areas were he was located to protect Bashir (Genocide in Darfur United). The myriad tragedies have disrupted this country greatly. Through out the time of fighting, the people of Sudan are being hurt greatly and the genocide has affected millions of innocent civilians. Since 2003 there has been death of at least
Northern will held throughout the long bloody war. The fall of the Confederacy was well described by Alan Farmer when he said “A people whose armies are beaten, railways wrecked, cities burned, countryside occupies, and crops laid waste, lose their will-and ability-to continue fighting (2005, para. 26). References Burns, K. & Burns, R. (Writers). (1990).
This event caused thousands of Tutsis to migrate to Uganda because of rise of Hutu violence against Tutsi. Around 1990, Tutsi exiles know as the Rwandan Patriotic Front(RPF), attempted to invade Rwanda. The invasion is thwarted by the Rwandan army with the help of French and Belgium troops. The attempted invasion caused a civil war between the two ethnic groups for 3 to 4 year. During the civil war, Rwanda’s main export coffee goes through a recession
About 42 percent of the amount of Agent Orange that we used was devoted to crop destruction; the products of hours of hard work were demolished within seconds. Agent Orange caused many people to starve to death. It has been reported, by the New York Times, that the herbicide destroyed 75 percent of the rice crops. Because people’s homes and crops were being destroyed, they were left homeless and hungry on the
The al-Shabaab militant group has become known around the world in the past few months for their infamous acts involving Somalia. The militants Involved with this group are making it increasingly hard to reach the people of Somalia who are still living in drought and famine conditions. Barricades and walls have been built by these such militants causing major problems for the aid groups trying to help stranded refugees. In addition, fighting has begun on the border of Somalia and Kenya due to the al-Shabaab and their plans to regain “several chunks of territory” (Gettleman, “Fighting Erupts on Border”) they had lost in the past month to the Somalian Government. Due to the fighting a majority of the Somalis retained in camps in Kenya were forced to leave and scatter among the devastation, some fleeing as far as the other side of the border, on Somalia’s soil.