We started class off by doing two write to learn activities. They were over the two presentations, South Africa and Rwanda, which we had yesterday. After we handed those in, Mr. Bruns summarized what each one was about. Kara, Chelsea, and Ana did their presentation on Darfur first. Darfur is about the size of Texas, it’s located in Sudan. The Sudan land is really dry and is being taken over by desert The Janjaweed (a group of Arabs) tried to get Africans off land to access water and get their fertile farmland. Janjaweed means devils on horseback these people did a lot of bad stuff to the Africans/ such as murders, thefts, and rapes. Omar Hasan al-Bashir was the dictator of Sudan. There was an estimated death of 400,000 people. Most of the deaths were from starvation. United Nations has pledged $22 million for supplies, military vehicles, missionary workers, etc. About half of million people have died total in the Darfur conflict. The next presentation was about Somalia. Piracy is a threat to international threat and shipping. Somalia pirates have received around $150 million dollars in ransom in the past year because of it. Pirates are now targeting oil tanks. There was an attempt missile attack on an Israeli plane but it failed. Jihadis (which is a terrorist group in Somalia) is responsible for many massacres along with a murder of an Israel nun. It is the number one failed state in the world. There are three different terrorist groups in Somalia and the country doesn’t have any government. My group was the last one. We will present tomorrow because we didn’t have enough time. The class took the rest of the class period to go over the maps which we will be taking on Thursday and Friday.
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