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Since its independence in 1956 Sudan has been, and continues to be, ravaged by civil wars. First the 17-year civil war (1956–72) and secondly the current civil war which started in 1983. For more than half a century relations between northern and southern Sudan have been hostile and have consisted largely of invasions by northern slave traders and aggression by the successive post-colonial northern-based governments trying to dominate the south. Despite the complexities of Sudan’s ethnic, racial, religious, linguistic and cultural diversity, the conflict has translated into a north-south dichotomy, with race and religion as its major factors.
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Edward, J.K. (2001). South Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future. In: Grimshaw, P., Holmes, K., Lake, M. (eds) Women’s Rights and Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977644_18
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