{"id":6482,"date":"2025-03-14T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2025-03-14T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:32:07","slug":"uganda-deploys-special-forces-to-south-sudan-to-protect-the-government-as-fears-of-civil-war-grow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/03\/14\/uganda-deploys-special-forces-to-south-sudan-to-protect-the-government-as-fears-of-civil-war-grow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda deploys special forces to South Sudan to protect the government as fears of civil war grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-sudan-fighting-ugandan-troops-3e36094b4eaea9247843ea3fad86f03d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Sudan has been plagued by multiple civil wars for many years and is currently in an ethnic and political conflict. The leader of South Sudan is Salva Kiir who is a ethnic Dinka and his opposition in this civil war is his deputy Machar who is an ethnic Nuer. Uganda’s government has historically backed and been aligned with South Sudan’s government led by Kiir. This relationship has led Uganda to send troops to protect the implemented and currently unstable government in South Sudan. Uganda has been known to intervene in South Sudan affairs in order to keep Kiir in power. There is speculation about possible rebel advances against the government and these actions by both sides of the war could further inflate the problems posed to the civilians and country as a whole. The war has escalated in recent weeks after a helicopter accident and arrests made against people loyal to Machar. These continued conflicts come after multiple failed attempts at ceasefires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this article is very important for the region because it is a big source of political instability and creates multiple armed, political and ethnic groups that are willing to kill others for what they want which has become a humanitarian problem in South Sudan and could spread over borders. I think that conflicts like this will continue to happen in South Sudan and other countries in the region unless there is a non-corrupt, stable government put in which is unlikely so therefore, the region will stay as a weaker part of the world because they are focused on being in civil wars instead of having successfully running countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expect that South Sudan will stay in civil war because they haven’t been able to escape it in over a decade for many reasons. I expect that the currently instated government led by Kiir will win for the time being if he is having foreign aid come to help his cause. I do not think any rebel groups will accept defeat though so that is why I believe that conflicts will continue to arise. I think that Uganda will continue to back Kiir as long as it is in their interest and that they will be fundamental in keeping Kiir in power. This connects to class because it deals with non-international armed conflicts such as a civil war and how that can be a security threat for multiple countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-sudan-fighting-ugandan-troops-3e36094b4eaea9247843ea3fad86f03d South Sudan has been plagued by multiple civil wars for many years and is currently in an ethnic and political conflict. The leader of South Sudan is Salva Kiir who is a ethnic Dinka and his opposition in this civil war is his deputy Machar who is an ethnic Nuer. Uganda’s government has historically backed and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482","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\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}