Fifteen years of brutal civil war have left nearly two million people dead. Most of those killed are civilians, innocents. Famine and rape are used as weapons of war. The government has regularly interfered with delivery of relief to victims of this terrible war. Emergency flights into Bahr el Ghazal were banned in February and March and access continues to be denied to the Nuba mountains.
Credible reports continue of slavery and slave trade in Sudan.
According to one, armed men in Sudanese uniforms carried off 400 children from Bahr il Ghazal, to a life of slavery, in April of this year. The government of Sudan must put a stop to slavery and to the slave trade. In Sudan there is widespread persecution of Christians and Animists. Arbitrary arrest, disappearances, and torture is widespread, as are reports of the abuse of women and children. Women are denied their basic rights.