NOTE from Sudan Watch Editor: Taking time out to search Sudan Watch's archives and collate various posts from the past 20 years. They are taking hours to find and prepare for a series of posts focussing on peace and the alleviation of poverty and extreme poverty in Sudan and South Sudan.
To start, here is an excerpt from a post published July 14, 2006 entitled:
'The root causes of the Darfur conflict: A struggle over controlling an environment that can no longer support all the people who must live on it'
DARFUR IN THE EYES OF A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER
Environmentalist Wangari Maathai who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize stated to The Washington Post on May 12, 2005 that:
"Darfur is an example of a situation where a dire scarcity of natural resources is manipulated by politicians for their own ambition. To outsiders, the conflict is seen as tribal warfare. At its roots, though, it is a struggle over controlling an environment that can no longer support all the people who must live on it. You must not deal only with the symptoms you have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehablitation and empowering people to do things for themselves. What is done for the people without involving them can not be sustained."
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2006/07/root-causes-of-darfur-conflict.html
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