{"id":5248,"date":"2022-04-28T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:41:34","slug":"official-death-toll-in-latest-darfur-violence-now-over-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2022\/04\/28\/official-death-toll-in-latest-darfur-violence-now-over-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Death toll in latest Darfur violence now over 200"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to article:https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-africa-sudan-1c99e719726092998a971c4444726dfe<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violence has broken out in Sudan\u2019s Darfur region, with the deaths surpassing 200 people. The attacks have overruned the security force in Darfur. This tribal conflict of non-Arabs and Arabs is another of many conflicts which have caused mass suffering and alleged crimes against humanity. This conflict is the biggest of recent years, Arab militants known as Janjaweed stormed towns with heavy weapons.  The violence spread throughout the city, the defending forces now have joined with civilian groups to help push back the invaders. The fighting comes close after a military coup in Sudan. This brings up the question of any order and quell the fighting Sudan as the UN has pulled its peacekeeping mission in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My take on this article is that the Sudan region along with other countries are a part of a big shatterbelt region. Focusing in on Sudan and south Sudan it’s very clear the social cleavages in the country makes unity almost impossible, which causes a cycle of perpetual fighting. Economic, ethnic, and religious tensions all have risen into play as a catalyst for violence. With zero legitimacy given to any consensus government, the use of coercion seems the only way. This coercion tactic then alerts the international community which in turn tries to fix the issue which launched Sudan along with countries back into a cycle of violence and non-unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This topic relates back to class with topics such as political organizations. The two types are consensus, for example democracy where some type of trust and representation is going on to run and trust the government. The other is coercion, a type of political organization who gets its legitimacy by ruling through force. The African states seem to have gone through cycles of both political organizations. With social cleavages being the catalyst for the change. These countries will have a consensu type government, but as tensions rise they don’t have enough or can’t do enough to have legitimacy among the people. In turn a change happens with a coupe or break off region, this is led by a coercion type government. This leads to resentment and mass violence which can lead to crimes against humanity which then attracts foreign aid to help fix the issue. This launches these countries back into a cycle and into more and more violence as it has become a shatterbelt because there is no good solution for everyone’s problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to article:https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-africa-sudan-1c99e719726092998a971c4444726dfe  Violence has broken out in Sudan\u2019s Darfur region, with the deaths surpassing 200 people. The attacks have overruned the security force in Darfur. This tribal conflict of non-Arabs and Arabs is another of many conflicts which have caused mass suffering and alleged crimes against humanity. This conflict is the biggest of recent years, Arab militants known as… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}