Chad: Crisis and Opportunity: Protracted Displacement in Sudan

Protracted displacement is a grim reality for millions of Sudanese civilians caught on the front lines of the interconnected civil wars that have wracked Sudan since its independence in 1956.
Through the first civil war (1956–1972), second civil war (1986–2005), and the ongoing conflict in Darfur (2003–present), combatants on all sides have deliberately targeted Sudanese civilians to achieve military objectives, such as the government’s strategy to clear populations in strategic oil-producing areas in the South, or on religious or ethnic grounds, as was the case most recently in Darfur.