Sorry for absence - too busy with work - will get back to it soon.
In the mean time - lets learn about South Sudan. Everyone knows Darfur, but not many people realise that there are multiple conflicts on multiple fronts happening throughout the country and that the south is effectively separated (it's an autonomous region) from the rest of the country.
South Sudan boasts some of the worst development indicators (it has one doctor for every 500,000 people), and now to boot, it is back in conflict with the northern government (conviently as it approaches it referendum to separate in 2010) with effects that could soon eclipse Darfur.
So now for some light reading - here is an article on the conflict in today's Observer... I'll get back to Iraq in a couple of days.
Guns, children and cattle are the new currency of war in Southern Sudan
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