Sudan

Colonialism has played a major role in the history and development of Sudan. To understand the situation you need to know what the back story is. In the 1880's, Good 'ole Great Britain began to colonize and rule over the area known as Sudan. They had issues with the neighbouring nation Egypt. in 1899 they agreed to rule the Country jointly divided into a northern half ruled by Egypt and a southern half ruled by Britain. Now the northern half contained people of Arabic descent and the south had the African natives. This kept the two peoples lived on without even really knowing that the other half even existed.

There wasn't really a problem with that until the 50's when both halves of Sudan achieved independence from their mother countries and suddenly had to deal with each other for the first time in 100 years. Now the basic principle is that whoever was the stronger of the two sides would take over and make the government and that side was the Norther Arabic side. This wouldn't have been a problem except that they quickly began to force their religion and traditions on the Sudanese people, not wanting to give up their own beliefs they fought back and civil war ensued. But since the North was much stronger the southern half soon began to lose and suffered from depopulation and forced movement.

A simple solution to this problem would be that the two halves could split off into their own separate nations entirely, but this probably would not end up working out as the stronger of the two nations would feel that the other half should belong to them and war would continue. A more likely solution would be the intervention of the situation by a much stronger nation, (The US most likely) but even then reversing the damage done will take a long time, but its still better late then never I say.