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Throughout history, Africa has endured wars and colonialism. The Romans, The Greeks and the Ottoman Turks all tried to conquer and subjugate the African people. In the modern history, the Europeans have divided and established colonies. Big wars continued to get rid the colonialists, like Angola, Zimbabwe and the Congo. When the colonialists left, they had the continent with undefined borders which was partly the source of conflicts between nations. The conflicts that are ravaging the continent are very complicated and have multiple causes. It is very hard to point to one. The leaders of the governments that rose after colonialism were still are inexperienced, inept to change and cling to power. To stay in power, they divided their people by region, tribe and religion. In Rwanda and Darfur genocide where thousands of people lost their lives. This led to a civil war where so many countries ended up to failed states. In Somalia, civil war has been raging for the last 20 years and the country ended up to be a failed state. After the fall of Mohamed Kaddafi, Libya became a lawless country. The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia left over 60 thousand people dead. South Sudan, after 20 years of guerilla war, they got their independence. But within a year the country fell into a civil war, when the two guerilla factions could not rule the country together. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, a Muslim sect, complaining of neglect by the government started a guerrilla war, which spread to neighboring countries. In the Congo, there is this tribal conflict for control of diamond production. These conflicts have some negative effects. Civilian are kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed. People are unable to move around freely. Food source is scarce. Children are unable to attend schools. Disease is rampaging the communities. There is no democracy, the election is always rigged. The government leaders stealing the resources.
The Second Congo War (also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War, and sometimes referred to as the African World War or even World War Three) began in August 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues. Ultimately, nine African countries and around twenty armed groups became involved in the war.[8] By 2008, the war and its aftermath had caused 5.4 million deaths, principally through disease and starvation, [9] making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II. The Congo
The War in Darfur is a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.[19][20] The government responded to attacks by carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur's non-Arabs. This resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the indictment of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.[21] Darfur
