Since it was founded in 2011, the land-locked country of South Sudan has been in a near constant state of various wars. The latest round of violence erupted in the country’s east, with fighting nearing Pibor town in the east.
Thousands are fleeing from the town, and the surrounding area. Doctors Without Borders reported the town’s entire population has fled, that they have suspended activities there, and that their staff has also fled into the bush to escape the fighting.
This fighting is between ethnic rivals, and that the two sides have been fighting since 2011. These fights often leave very high body counts, and the Doctors Without Borders not having activities in and around Pibor, a lot of injuries could become fatalities with no one to tend to them.
Problems like these have been constant across South Sudan, where US-backed independence was supposed to mean a stable, oil-rich nation and instead has produced a nation of constant war and a government that’s mostly been at war with itself from its founding.
Is South Sudan mostly Christian ? Are they fighting other Christians or are they fighting Muslims
Christians more or less, but it seems to be a tribal-ethnic based conflict that’s mostly Neur vs. Dinka, not between Christian sects or other religions.
It’s tribal and power conflicts. Religion isn’t a factor. Religion never is a factor except as a cover for far more secular and immediate gains.
“South Sudan, where US-backed independence was supposed to mean a stable, oil-rich nation” which of course always happens when the USA brings “humanitarian intervention”.
Almost a year before South Sudan independence I had written an article on Subversify.com in which I had predicted socioeconomic breakdown and civil war within five years. I admit that I was wrong. It didn’t even take five months.