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Old 05-04-2008, 12:28 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I was always under the impression it was a racist push by Arabian Sudan against African Sudan?
Kind of, but there's really very little racial difference between the black Sudanese of the south and the "Afro-Arabs" of the north. It isn't a religious conflict either, despite the religious split. It's mostly tribal from what I understand.
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