The Government of Sudan's campaign of ethnic cleansing has continued into the rainy season. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children have been driven from their homes into Africa's largest ecological swamplands.
Genocide continues unabated and unnoticed by the outside world.
Fighter jets, helicopter gunships, radar systems and other military hardware have been obtained by using oil revenue as credit to finance purchases. It is a vicious cycle. Weapons are needed to capture the oil fields. Oil is needed to pay for the weapons. Africa Messenger is published six times per year by the Persecution Project Foundation as a service to PPF Friends and Partners.