Saving South Sudan: How South Sudan Got Lost
Publisher: Robert Young Pelton
Date: 2014
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance, Land, Livelihoods
Countries: South Sudan
Sudan was once home to a great civilization that was the most advanced in all of Africa—but centuries of colonialism and conflict, and a post-independence period ravaged by coups, dictatorships, and incompetent rule, mired Sudan in a series of never-ending wars. This timeline details how by 2013, the oil-rich, fertile nation was falling apart.