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Sudan's Uncivil War_National Geographic Magazine 2/2003 60 images Created 1 Apr 2021

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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • A wounded soldier hangs on to a pole to assist in his rescue while being carried to a waiting plane. He was one of five soldiers who waited on the runway for five days with gunshot wounds hoping a plane would land. In the town of Jiech, the northern government of Sudan allows no flights, and planes are routinely shot down in this corridor. Rebels fight MIGS and helicopter gun ships with tractors and Kalashnikovs.
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  • Villagers in the far north of Sudan greet each other before a family wedding in Karima, a northern village. These men rarely see each other. There is no work for them in their villages and most of them work in neighboring countries. Sudan is a difficult place to live if you a not a member of the elite few in Khartoum.
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  • A Baggara horseman builds a fire on his journey to the south.
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  • Responding to an ad broadcast throughout Sudan--even in war zones--a southern man traveled hundreds of miles as a migrant worker to cut sugarcane on the Kenana plantation in the north.
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  • Islam and Arab culture came to Sudan through trading centers like the ruined Red Sea and ancient port of Suakin. Sudan has long been ruled by a small circle of wealthy northerners, who, because of their Muslim faith and Arabized culture, consider themselves Arab instead of African. Islam and Arab culture came to Sudan through trading centers like the port of Suakin. Suakin was ottoman built but was possibly chipped into this perfectly round circle by the Romans.  Suakin was the main port from the 14th century until World War I and has never been excavated.
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  • A man illuminates hieroglyphics on a wall in a Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Northern Sudanese friends converse in a restaurant where life is comfortable. In their civilized world, they are removed from the war in the south. Although removed from the conflict, Sudanese northerners travel to town for the weekly cattle market have suffered from inflation caused by high military spending.
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  • Hoping to make a little money from Sudan's ocean of black gold, a woman sells tea to roughnecks at an oil rig near Bentiu. There are little encampments of refugees living around Rig 15 and moving with it as it moves.
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  • Shuffling through shallows, a southern Sudan girl who fled to the government garrison town of Juba eats a foraged mango. Living in fear, she hikes with her Dinka family on an island in the middle of the Nile River.
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  • The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs from an Antonov, a Russian plane and one of the largest aircraft ever built, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Government bombs killed five Dinkas and their herd of cattle near Biem. They target the animals because they know it is the last resource in times of famine. The goal of the GOS is to force southerners from their villages into garrison towns where the people can be controlled. They also kidnap the children.
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  • Five soldiers who waited on the runway for five days with gunshot wounds hoping a plane would land. In the town of Jiech, the northern government of Sudan allows no flights, and planes are routinely shot down in this corridor. Rebels fight MIGS and helicopter gun ships with tractors and Kalashnikovs.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714582-1.jpg
  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle hide in acacia forests to escape attack by government forces. The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs nearby, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Animals are a target because they are the last resource in times of famine.
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  • Dinka oil worker with scarification in the oil fields in Southern Sudan.
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  • Graveyard in Ruweng County which is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • In the ancient Tombos quarry villagers skirt a statue from the seventh century B.C. when their Nubian ancestors ruled all of Egypt. Today, Sudan’s government does not control the whole country. Since independence from Britain in 1956, the nation’s northern leaders have fought to extend their power throughout the south in a search for resources.
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  • The South Sudan war zone is cut off from outside aid. Without cows or supplies, the Dinka people around Biem are desperate for food. They have eaten leaves from the bottom of the trees and now climb up to gather from the tops to boil them in rancid swamp water.
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  • Living in the dust in warn-torn Sudan, a home remedy of cattle dung is all a boy has to treat a lice infestation.
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  • A 1750-1550 BC settlement and fort of the earliest Nubian civilization
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • A 6th-7th century Kushite pyramid, one of the best preserved.
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  • Sugar cane workers, Sudan.These plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
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  • Baggara people on journey to the south.
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  • Seeking to win over the approval of visiting Western journalists, government officials gather at the home of the minister of information in the capital of Khartoum.
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  • Most of Sudan's wealth flows to Khartoum, into the hands of a privileged few who have imposed strict Islam on the country and are exploiting southern resources.
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  • Dinka oil worker with scarification in the oil fields in Southern Sudan.
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  • Dinka oil worker with scarification in the oil fields in Southern Sudan.
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  • An aerial photo shows the Sudd swamp in Sudan that long isolated the south from Islam.
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  • Shifting sands of the desert covers much of northern Sudan.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-2.jpg
  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-1.jpg
  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-3.jpg
  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-4.jpg
  • MSF Hospital with patient and rare skin disease. Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-5.jpg
  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-7.jpg
  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-8.jpg
  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-60.jpg
  • A leper colony in Ruweng County, which is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714575-61.jpg
  • A Baggara horseman on his journey to the south.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714576-1.jpg
  • A Dinka girl abducted from her village awaits in a halfway house for former slaves and hopes to be liberated to return home in the south.
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  • Half the nearly four million southerners driven from their homes by war live around Khartoum in refugee camps.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714579.jpg
  • The South Sudan war zone is cut off from outside aid. Without cows or supplies, the Dinka people around Biem are desperate for food. They have eaten leaves from the bottom of the trees and now climb up to gather from the tops to boil them in rancid swamp water.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714584.jpg
  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718206-1.jpg
  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718206-2.jpg
  • Most of Sudan's wealth flows to Khartoum, into the hands of a privileged few who have imposed strict Islam on the country and are exploiting southern resources.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718232-5.jpg
  • A man ascends stairs in the tomb of Piankhy, a Nubian king.
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  • Two Sudanese children, an adult and a donkey in a desolate landscape.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718258.jpg
  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_745538.jpg
  • Osama Bin Laden home. Sugar cane  plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718232-4.jpg
  • Sugar cane workers, Sudan.These plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718232-3.jpg
  • Sugar cane workers, Sudan.These plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718232-2.jpg
  • Baggara people on journey to the south.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714576-5.jpg
  • Baggara people on journey to the south.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_714576-4.jpg
  • Baggara people on journey to the south.
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  • Women carrying bundles on their heads, Sudan.
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  • Prison, Sudan
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  • A group of Umbero people look with wonder at a polaroid photograph seeing their image for the first time.
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  • A satellite dish for international programs is in a courtyard.
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  • A Western writer talking with a group of refugee Sudanese men.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_745536.jpg