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Giant and DwarfSouth Sudan “Be Careful about What YouWish For—Gods May Fulfill Your Wishes!”The longest civil war in Africa and the youngest and poorest state. Archaic form ofcivil war: cattle vendetta tying half of the UN forces in the new country. Split of theoil fields and pipelines: sentenced to mutual dependency. China’s dilemma in bothparts of Sudan. Oil war?If Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is at the brink of disintegration, Sudan, untilrecently the largest country in Africa is already behind it—after half a century of ethnic andreligious wars. In July 2011, after a civil war which lasted a generation, Sudan, with an areaof ​2.5 million km 2 (for comparison, the entire area of the European Union is 4.3 million km 2 ),divided into two parts. The smaller southern part gave birth to the new independent stateof South Sudan, with an area of ​620,000 km 2 and about 8.3 million inhabitants.Independence in South Sudan fulfilled the dream of many people living in this vastterritory. During colonial rule Great Britain administered both north and south Sudan, butbecause of the large ethnic and religious differences, the British managed them as twoessentially separate entities. When Sudan gained independence from Britain, there wereconsiderations about the possible connection of South Sudan—formerly known as Equatoria—toUganda. It turned out that the concerns that led to those considerations werejustified. Once independent, Sudan consisting of both the northern and southern partwas established in 1956, the Arabized and more economically developed north introduceddomination over the Nilot and mainly Christian tribes in the south leading to a profounddissatisfaction and two long civil wars. The first war lasted from 1955 to 1972 and over the17 years claimed the lives of about half a million people, of whom about 400,000 were civilians.The second Sudanese war lasted even longer—22 years (1983 to 2005)—and killed upto 2 million people.Thus, the endless civil war in Sudan claimed about two and a half million lives and fivemillion found themselves as refugees. However, the loss of life due to war and an infant80