South Sudan in Your View, Based on

South Sudan In your view, based on what you have seen on the media, journals, etc. Please explain in a short statement; what are the roles of tribal politics/identities, natural resources and the system of distribution resources in the violence in South Sudan? South Sudan has a rich natural resource base. Oil reserves, estimated to be among the largest in the continent, were recently discovered, not forgetting the large amounts of resources that have over the years remained untapped due to recurring wars and conflict.

These natural resources, however, are the main cause of conflict between the country's top political powerhouses; President Salva Kiir of the Dinka community, and Riak Machar of the Nuer Community. The violence currently being experienced, and which can rightly be referred to as an ethnic war between the Dinka and the Nuer, is as a result of the rivalry between these two, both of whom use their ethnic patronage and influence to turn their respective communities against each other.

The Nuer community believes that it has been shortchanged by the Kiir administration right from the onset, and that it may not, therefore, have been given its fare share of the natural resource cake, in accordance with the massive support it showed for President Salva Kiir in the 2011 elections. South Sudan is divided into three regional groupings -- the Greater Upper Nile, Bahr-Al-Ghazal, and the Greater Equatoria. The Upper Nile States, which contain the largest amounts of oil, have reported the largest number of deaths.

The Machar camp has, in several media briefings, openly accused the Kiir administration of corruption and of favoring the Dinka community in the allocation of senior government positions -- especially those that have to do with the country's natural resources, oil in particular. Fueling the crisis even further is the act of doublespeak from some countries that have vested interests in South Sudan's oil base.

According to recent allegations, some western countries have thrown their support behind Machar's White Army, and reportedly sheltered Machar in a legation after his failed coup attempt. Question Two: Are current issues in South Sudan related to the poor socio-economic status, trauma, and depression of its people? I strongly believe that the socio-economic status and the depression of the people of South Sudan have a lot to with the situation currently being experienced.

The people of South Sudan were, until very recently, citizens of Sudan, a country that has been marred by corruption and whose history is built mainly on civil wars. Massive oil deposits have been discovered in South Sudan, but just when the young nation thought it could make a fortune out of the deposits and at least improve its citizens' living standards, a crisis comes up.

The leaders on both sides of the divide try to build a name from this discovery, but the people's poor economic status makes it so easy for the leaders to sway them and get them to turn against each other. Depression plays a fundamental role; the.