NewsTracker Answers for week of Sep. 30, 2024

Q: Sudan’s military and its paramilitary rival have blocked the UN's humanitarian agencies from delivering aid to large areas of the war-torn country where half of Sudan’s 50 million people suffer from severe hunger and hundreds die daily from starvation. Where is Sudan in Northeast Africa?

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Q: Last week fighting heated up in the nation’s capital as the Sudan Armed Forces bombed areas held by the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. What is the capital of Sudan?

A. Addis Ababa

B. Khartoum

C. N'Djamena

D. Tripoli

B. Khartoum is the capital of Sudan and the most populous metropolitan area of the country with a population of more than 6 million people. It is located where the White Nile and Blue Nile join to form the Nile River which flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.

Q: Independent Sudan has experienced 19 military coup attempts, more than any other African nation. Who controlled the country before it gained independence in 1956?

A, British

B. French

C. Italians

D. Spanish

A. Britain and Egypt agreed in 1899 to joint rule of what is now Sudan and South Sudan, but in reality, it was ruled as a British colony until 1956. Since then, Sudan has endured multiple civil wars. The current conflict broke out last year between the biggest rivals in Sudan’s military government.

Q: The region that is now Sudan has connections to its northern neighbors in Egypt that go back thousands of years. What was the Sudan region called for most of its history?

A. Assyria

B. Macedonia

C. Nubia

D. Thebes

C. Nubia extended along the Nile from what is now Khartoum to what is now Aswan in southern Egypt It was the home of one of Africa’s earliest civilizations which lasted a thousand years before it was conquered by the New Kingdom of Egypt about 1500 BC. Later, several Nubian Pharaohs ruled Egypt. Arab nomads moved into the region in the 14th and 15th centuries,

Q: In the current civil war, Egypt has backed the Sudan military. What Persian Gulf nation is supporting the paramilitary forces?

A. Jordan

B. Lybia

C. Turkey

D. United Arab Emirates

D. The United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf sent arms and support to the Rapid Support Force. Both sides in the conflict have been accused of war crimes as at least 20,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured in the fighting. Famine and disease caused by the conflict are killing many more.