Feb 27, 2009

The View from Up Here: Not All It's Cracked Up To Be

[Link to gallery also included in "Educate Yourself" section of blog on left of webpage for future reference]

Here is a link to a collection of photos of Northern Sudan- while different in religion, language, skin colour and culture from Southern Sudan, it seems the Government of Sudan (run by Muslim Northerners and located in Khartoum, capital city of Northern Sudan) is still failing, even in providing for its own, like-minded citizens in the North. The international community must ask itself why, when we are told by the news-media that the North and South are fighting over religious and ethnic lines, those in power continue to suppress the people they profess to support? It is a sad state of affairs across the board in Africa- we must be careful not to believe any one-sided version of events. From the ground, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

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