One thing is clear about the new war in the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan, the first war of the shrunken Republic of Sudan presided over by President Omar al-Bashir: No one outside Sudan knows how to address it. Most wish it would simply go away – that those pesky Nuba would put down their arms in the interest of the “larger peace” between the two Sudans and make the best of living in a separate, northern state that Bashir has said will have no room for cultural and ethnic diversity.
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