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Monday, April 17, 2006

Sudan vs. Congo?

So yeah, I read a few articles the other day that seemed to me to say that Sudan and Congo are having some border problems. It seems that refugees from Darfur are running to the Congo, where they are being attacked by the Sudanese fighters, undermining the Congo's sovereignty. Congo is under internal political pressure as well, it seems that their president is trying to serve a life sentence. These issues are pretty relevant if you view the world in Samuel Huntington's paradigm of a Clash of Civilizations. You see, the Sudanese-Congo border is a fault-line in the Sahel regionof Africa between the African and Islamic Civiliztions and this could be seen as pressure to expand their borders. Each country is funding resistance in each other's country and also calling for the other to stop. We need some real negotiation here, the problem is, the Islamic and African civilizations don't have a strong core state, leaving them no option but to simply fight it out. I would say that we should step in, but every time the United States steps in somewhere, people complain about cultural imperialism. Oh well, world politics is a sticky thing, I just hope this doesn't evolve into an all out war.

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