Sudan
SUDAN AT A GLANCE
Continent: Africa
Geographic Coordinates:
15 00 N, 30 00 E
Borders: Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, South Sudan, Red Sea
Population: 35,482,233 (July 2014 est.)
Ethnic Groups: Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Fallata
WHY PEOPLE WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES:
Islamic-oriented military regimes have controlled Sudan since it became independent of Anglo-Egyptian co-rule in 1956, and political violence there has displaced millions of people in two prolonged civil wars. These conflicts were fueled by northern economic, political, and social domination of largely non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The Lost Boys of Sudan (displaced and/or orphaned during the second civil war) and the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur are well known to most Americans. Sudanese refugees were first resettled in Vermont in 1998.
SUDANESE IN VERMONT
2014 - Burlington Free Press: South Sudan strife affects Vermont's Lost Boys
GENERAL BACKGROUND RESOURCES ON SUDAN
NPR, All Things Considered: Christians Flock to South Sudan, Fear Future in North