Sudan-
Sudan has been another area of extreme violence in Africa. The northern part of sudan is controlled by Muslims who have tried to impose there laws and religion on the mostly black Christian African in the south. This is essentially what caused Africa longest cicil war which ended in 2005 and had staggering causality rates of almost 2.5 million people, and displaced many more millions. The two sides formed the CPA (comprehensive Peace agreement) the terms of the agreement are that a new party, the SPLM ( Sudan people's liberation movement) will control the south led by President Omar al -Bashir, along with the right to succeed from the rest of Sudan. In early January of this year souther sudan will take a vote on whether or not to break away from sudan and form a new country. It is expected that they will vote to do so and if so, Africa will have a fresh new country called South Sudan. The vote is such a sure thing that the region has already started to go ahead and build state of the art (for the region) offices for its new government. The new capital will be Juba, home to 8 million souther Sudan people. Still there is a lot of concern over how well the new country would function in coming years and also as to whether or not the northerners will abide by this agreement and let the region proceed with the vote.
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