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The Winter of

ISLAM

and the Spring to Come SUDAN

A country trying to

escape fighting
and civil war

O ne of the country's most important
problems is the longstanding con-
flict between its north and south.
This conflict is both religious and ethnic in na-
ture. Muslim Arabs live in the north, whereas
Christian Africans form the majority in the
south. This ethnic and religious split is a
legacy of the British colonial administration
that drew up the frontiers of the country. The
legacy is a bloody one. Ever since the 1960s,
the southern Christians have been in a state of
organized rebellion against the Khartoum ad-
ministration run by the Muslim Arabs in the
north. This rebellion is organized by a
Christian organization calling itself the
"Anya-Nya."
In 1989, the rebellion in the south gath-
ered momentum with the establishment of a
Muslim regime in the country. That is be-
cause "some people" constantly incite rebel-