5-08-08

Barack Hussein "Kenya Sunni al-Queda" Obama

Why did Jacob Rothschild, the Rockefellers, and the Federal Reserve Fraud anoint Little George President of the United States? September 11, the war in Iraq, high gasoline prices, the shredding of the US Constitution, communi$m, rigged elections, as well as many other dirty deeds. Simply put, the Federal Reserve Fraud anoints, chooses the US president to do what it wants done.

All one must do is figure out what the Federal Reserve Fraud wants done and look in to the back ground of the presidential candidates and we can get a good idea as to who is going to be the next president of the United States.

The Federal Reserve Fraud wants, needs the Sunni al-Queda to control the major oil supplies of the world by attacking Iran and Russia's Caspian Sea oil reserves. What better way to show the Sunni al Queda the United States is on their side than have a one generation removed Kenyan, Barack Hussein Obama the US president. Kenya, bin Laden, Sunni, bin Laden,

Saddam Hussein, are all tied together in the 1998 US Embassy bombings and terrorism directed at the USA. (Was the Federal Reserve Fraud writing Barack Obama in their plans for world dominion in 1998?) Even if Barack Obama is not sympathetic with the 1998 US Embassy bombings, the Federal Reserve Fraud is going to depict him as being on the side of Kenya, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, terrorism, the overthrow of the United States. Bill Ayers is a buddy of Barack Obama and a founder of the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization,Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."[2] Barack Obama is the greatest al-Queda recruiting tool ever which will result is scores of our brave soldiers being killed. Boy is Kenya ever a hotbed of Sunni al-Queda terrorism! The message of Barack Obama to millions around the world is that he and thus the United States is a terrorist communi$t country. Man is this insane! And I thought comrade Little George was bad news. If I was not living in this world and studying it I would not even think of believing what is going on. Satan has done done it. We have got to be living in the time of the Book of Revelations. And I called Little George the antiChrist. If Little George is the antiChrist, who is Obama?

Isn't it weird Barack Obama hates the Federal Reserve Fraud and yet the Federal Reserve Fraud has made Obama and Obama's beloved communi$m. Its weird Jewish people hate the Holocaust yet the Rothschilds financed the Holocaust. Actually it makes sense. When the Federal Reserve Fraud owns Obama they know his plans and therefore the Federal Reserve Fraud owns and controls all sides of the war. Talking about hedging your bets.

Kenya forces its young people to spend nine years of military service. Obama may think this is neat since his father was from Kenya and start the draft and force our kids to spend 9 years in the military. There is no telling what is going through Obama's mind. Certainly he must think the USA is the craziest country in the world. When Obama spoke at Trask Collosium in Wilmington a Black preacher asked him a question. Obama's answer is not as important as his copying the way the Black preacher spoke. If people liked the Holocaust, the Civil War, WW I & II, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, slavery, and Iraq, they are going to love Obama's Martial Law.

With all the true blue Americans to pick a US president who is one generation away from being a foreigner ( My guess is that Obama is not even eligible to be US president!) whose father was a communi$t is simply insane and obviously the work of the Federal Reserve Fraud.

In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks, linked to local members of the al Qaeda terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden, brought bin Laden and al Qaeda to international attention for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list.

Although the targets of the attacks were US government facilities, most of its victims were African civilians: about 200 Kenyans were killed at the embassy in Nairob.Bin Laden's actual goal was "to lure the United States into Afghanistan, which was already being called 'The Graveyard of Empires.'"[3] The bombings also happened at an symbolic date: "August 7th, 1998, was the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990", an issue of Osama bin Laden's greatest concern (Rohan Gunaratna 2002: Inside Al Qaeda, page 46).

U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered Operation Infinite Reach, a series of cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan on August 20, 1998, announcing the planned strike in a primetime address on American television.

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Investigations into the embassy bombings were conducted by the FBI and Kenyan and Tanzanian authorities. A list of suspects was drawn up and several men were charged for their involvement in the bombings.

Twenty days after the bombings, Uday Hussein (son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein) praised Osama Bin Laden as "an Arab and Islamic hero."[5] Later, Richard A. Clarke, a top Clinton administration counterterrorism official, stated that one source reported that bin Laden had met with Iraqi officials who "may have offered him asylum" after the embassy bombings.[6]

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Barack Hussein Obama
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born August 4, 1961 (1961-08-04) (age 46)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. Dreams from My Father, and a personal commentary on U.S. politics titled The Audacity of Hope( Title from Jeremiah Wright speech) .

Born to a Kenyan father. At age six, he moved to Jakarta, where he lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather for four years. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. (The Federal Reserve Fraud gets their next president to give the keynote address.)

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he cosponsored legislation to control conventional weapons
Barack Obama, Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya. After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. Dreams from My Father, a memoir published in 1995. Bill Ayers David Axelrod

The Senate historian lists Obama as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history, and the third to have been popularly elected.the National Journal ranked him as the "most liberal" senator based on an assessment of selected votes during 2007.A provision from the Obama-Hagel.

Obama and ex-Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar visit a Russian . He left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad.

Jakarta
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Jakarta
Jakarta (Indonesia)

Religion Islam (86%), Protestant (6%), Roman Catholic (4%), Buddhism (4%), Hindu

Dreams from My Father From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
In the book, Obama recalls a sermon by pastor Jeremiah Wright called "The Audacity to Hope," from which Obama would take the title of his second book.[4] Obama quotes Wright, describing the world as one "where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world, On which hope sits!" [5] [6]

Barack Obama, Sr.
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Barack Obama, Sr. and Jr. during Senior's
only visit with his son in Hawai'i
Born 1936
Nyangoma-Kogelo, Kenya
Died 1982
Nairobi, Kenya
Burial place Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya[1]
Nationality Kenyan
Alma mater University of Hawaii
Harvard University
Occupation Economist
Known for Biological father of Barack Obama
Spouse Kezia
Ann Dunham
Ruth Nidesand
Unknown 4th partner[2]
Children 1. (with Kezia) Abongo (Roy) Obama,
Auma Obama, Abo Obama, Bernard Obama
2. (with Ann Dunham) Barack Obama
3. (with Ruth Nidesand) Mark Obama,
David Obama[2]
Parents Hussein Onyango Obama and Auma Obama [1]
Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) was the father of Illinois Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama. He left the family when Barack Jr. was two years old, and only saw him one more time when Barack was age 10. He is the main subject of his son's memoir, Dreams From My Father. Born and raised in Kenya, Obama Sr. was educated in the United States, after which he returned to Kenya and served as a senior economist for the government.[3] Obama died age 46, from injuries received in an automobile accident.[4]

Barack Obama, Sr., was born in 1936 in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District (now in Bondo District), Kenya. His father, Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979),[1] belonged to the Luo tribe. Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Onyango had travelled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces during World War I and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar, where he converted from Christianity to Islam and added Hussein to his name.[5] Onyango had at least three wives; Barack Obama Sr. was the son of Akuma, the second wife. However, he was raised by Onyango's third wife, Sarah, after Akuma left her family.[1]

Obama Sr. grew up in Nyangoma-Kogelo. At 18, he married a young woman named Kezia in a tribal ceremony. They had four children, two of them after he returned to Kenya from the United States. He never divorced Kezia, who now lives in Bracknell, England.[6]

He left behind a pregnant Kezia and their infant son.

According to Senator Obama, the elder Obama had already abandoned Islam and become an atheist by the time he moved to the United States. Sure

On February 2, 1961, Obama Sr. married a fellow student, Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii.[9] She did not know that he already had a wife in Kenya.[5] Their son, Barack Obama, Jr., was born on August 4, 1961.

At Harvard, he met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand who would follow him to Kenya when he returned after completing a graduate degree. She eventually became his third wife. She and Obama Sr. had two children together before they divorced.[11]

On his return to Kenya, Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of Transportation. In 1965 Obama wrote an important paper titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism" Obama's paper put him on the side of communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga against pro-Western 'third way" leader Tom Mboya and the President of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta.[citation needed] As Sen. Barack Obama describes in his memoir, Obama the elder's conflict with President Kenyatta effectively destroyed his career. His life then took a tailspin into drinking and poverty, from which he never fully recovered. Obama Sr. lost both legs in an automobile accident, and subsequently lost his job. He died not long afterwards in poverty at the age of 46 in another car crash.[4]

He is buried in the village of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya
Besides Senator Obama, Barack Obama Sr. fathered six other sons and a daughter. All but one live in Britain or the United States.[1]His children with Kezia include their sons Roy (now known as Abong'o[11]), Bernard, and Abo, and daughter Auma who is a social worker running a children's trust in the United Kingdom.[12] Obama Sr. had two sons with Ruth, named David and Mark. Mark studied physics at Stanford, and now lives in China and is engaged to a Chinese woman. [13] His eighth child was with a woman in Kenya whom he was planning to marry at the time of his death.[5]

Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
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A traditional Luo village at the Bomas of Kenya museum.

Total population
3,185,000 in 1994 .[1]
In Tanzania population was estimated at 280,000 in 2001.[1]
Religion(s)
Christianity and Islam
Related ethnic groups
Luo peoples
The Luo (also called Jaluo and Joluo) are an ethnic group in Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. They are part of a larger group of ethnolinguistically related Luo peoples who inhabit an area including southern Sudan, northern and eastern Uganda, western Kenya, and northern Tanzania.The Luo are the third largest ethnic group (12%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (20%) and the Luhya (17%). The Luo and the Kikuyu inherited the bulk of political power in the first years following Kenya's independence in 1963. The Luo population in Kenya was estimated to be 3,185,000 in 1994 .[1] In Tanzanian population was estimated at 280,000 in 2001.[1]The main Luo livelihood is fishing. Outside Luoland, the Luo work in eastern Africa as tenant fishermen, small scale farmers, and urban workers. They speak the Dholuo language, which belongs to the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family spoken by other Luo-speaking peoples such as the Lango, Acholi, Padhola and Alur (all of Uganda).

[edit] Pre-Colonial Times
The Luo probably originated at Wau in southern Sudan, near the confluence of the Meride and Sue Rivers.Many Luo played significant roles in the struggle for Kenyan independence, but the tribe was relatively uninvolved in the Mau Mau Uprising of the 1950s. Instead, some Luo used their education to advance the cause of independence peacefully. The lawyer C.M.G. Argwings-Kodhek, for example, used his expertise to defend Mau Mau suspects in court.
Kenya became independent on 12 December 1963. Oginga Odinga, a prominent Luo leader, declined the presidency of Kenya, preferring to assume the vice presidency with Jomo Kenyatta as the head of government. Their administration represented the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party. However, differences with Jomo Kenyatta caused Oginga to defect from the party and abandon the vice presidency in 1966. His departure caused the Luo to become politically marginalized under the Kenyatta, and subsequently the Moi, administrations.

Many years of poor leadership and disastrous economic management in Kenya, particularly under the KANU party's administration of the nascent state, had tragic consequences for the people of Kenya. Ravaged by AIDS and with little or no infrastructure, the Luo-populated regions remained poor and undeveloped, despite the economic potential of nearby Lake Victoria. Kenya continues to struggle with poverty and AIDS today.[3]

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Kenya's election violence between the Kikuyu and the Luo since the controversial December 2007 presidential election.[4][5]

The most prominent Luo politician today is Raila Odinga, the son of Oginga Odinga and former Minister of Roads and Public Works. He is widely credited with enabling Mwai Kibaki to win the 2002 presidential election through the support of his Liberal Democratic Party.

Another prominent member was Barack Obama Sr., whose son Barack Obama Jr. is United States Senator from Illinois and is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States.

[edit] Political influence in the government
Since Oginga Odinga's 1966 resignation from the vice presidency, the Luo people have been regarded as opponents to the government. The struggle for independence did not feature any Luo elders as some claim; however, the Luo did peacefully participate.[clarify]

[edit] Luo Religious Customs
The Luo traditionally believed in an afterlife and a supreme creator, whom they called Nyasaye, and had a strong ancestor cult. Today most Kenya Luo are Christians.

The first major ritual in a Luo person's life is called juogi, the naming ceremony. Any time between birth and age two, an ancestor might appear in a dream to an adult member of the family. It is generally believed that only people who did good things when alive appear in this way and are thus "reincarnated". The child is supposed to assume some of the mannerisms of the ancestor he or she is named after. If the ancestor was quiet, the child becomes a quiet person; if talkative, same. The so named ancestor becomes the individual's "guardian angel" throughout life. Children are rarely named after bad people. It is believed that after death evil people are gone for good (sent to hell).

The Luo are in the minority of ethnic groups in east Africa in that they do not practice ritual circumcision of males as initiation. Instead, children formerly had their six lower front teeth carefully removed at an initiation. This ritual has largely fallen out of use. [edit] Luo Marriage Customs
The Luo traditionally practiced polygamy, though this has fallen out of favor with young adults today,though many still practice it (it is undocumented)as it is only the first wife who is recognised by the law. (In the former times, men could marry up to five wives.) Historically, couples were introduced to each other by matchmakers, but this is also less common now. The Luo frequently marry outside the tribe, although it is not recommended by the council of elders. The traditional marriage ceremony takes place in two parts, both involving the payment of a bride price by the groom. The first ceremony, the Ayie, involves a payment of money to the mother of the bride; the second stage involves giving cattle to her father. Often these two steps are carried out at the same time, and as many modern Luos are Christians, a church ceremony often follows. Everyone in the Luo community is expected to marry. Spinsters and old bachelors are shunned by the community.

Kenya

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The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but were viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people

male: 56.42 years
female: 56.87 years (2008 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
6.7% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
1.2 million (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
150,000 (2003 est.)

Ethnic groups:
Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%
Religions:
Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Muslim 10%, indigenous beliefs 10%, other 2%
note: a large majority of Kenyans are Christian, but estimates for the percentage of the population that adheres to Islam or indigenous beliefs vary widely

Political pressure groups and leaders:
Council of Islamic Preachers of Kenya or CIPK [Sheikh Idris MOHAMMED]; Kenya Human Rights Commission [L. Muthoni WANYEKI]; labor unions; Muslim Human Rights Forum [Ali-Amin KIMATHI]; National Convention Executive Council or NCEC, a proreform coalition of political parties and nongovernment organizations [Ndung'u WAINANA]; Protestant National Council of Churches of Kenya or NCCK [Canon Peter Karanja MWANGI]; Roman Catholic and other Christian churches; Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims or SUPKEM [Shaykh Abdul Gafur al-BUSAIDY]

Economy - overview:
The regional hub for trade and finance in East Africa, Kenya has been hampered by corruption and by reliance upon several primary goods whose prices have remained low. In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program due to the government's failure to maintain reforms and curb corruption. A severe drought from 1999 to 2000 compounded Kenya's problems, causing water and energy rationing and reducing agricultural output. As a result, GDP contracted by 0.2% in 2000. The IMF, which had resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya through the drought, again halted lending in 2001 when the government failed to institute several anticorruption measures. Despite the return of strong rains in 2001, weak commodity prices, endemic corruption, and low investment limited Kenya's economic growth to 1.2%. Growth lagged at 1.1% in 2002 because of erratic rains, low investor confidence, meager donor support, and political infighting up to the elections. In the key December 2002 elections, Daniel Arap MOI's 24-year-old reign ended, and a new opposition government took on the formidable economic problems facing the nation. After some early progress in rooting out corruption and encouraging donor support, the KIBAKI government was rocked by high-level graft scandals in 2005 and 2006. In 2006 the World Bank and IMF delayed loans pending action by the government on corruption. The international financial institutions and donors have since resumed lending, despite little action on the government's part to deal with corruption. The scandals have not weighed down growth, with estimated real GDP growth at more than 6 percent in 2007.

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,600 (2007 est.)

Unemployment rate:
40% (2001 est.)

Population below poverty line:
50% (2000 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 37.2% (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.3% (2007 est.)

Public debt:
50.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age (est.) for voluntary service, with a 9-year obligation (2007)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 9,044,685
females age 16-49: 8,805,736 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 5,688,259
females age 16-49: 5,396,166 (2008 est.)

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international:
Kenya served as an important mediator in brokering Sudan's north-south separation in February 2005; Kenya provides shelter to almost a quarter of a million refugees, including Ugandans who flee across the border periodically to seek protection from Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists; the boundary that separates Kenya's and Sudan's sovereignty is unclear in the "Ilemi Triangle," which Kenya has administered since colonial times
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 150,459 (Somalia), 76,646 (Sudan), 14,862 (Ethiopia)
IDPs: 431,150 (KANU attacks on opposition tribal groups in 1990s) (2006)
Trafficking in persons:
current situation: Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and sexual exploitation; men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East, other African nations, Western Europe, and North America for domestic servitude, enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and manual labor; Chinese women trafficked for sexual exploitation reportedly transit Nairobi and Bangladeshis may transit Kenya for forced labor in other countries
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List due to a lack of evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking
Illicit drugs:
widespread harvesting of small plots of marijuana; transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa; significant potential for money-laundering activity given the country's status as a regional financial center; massive corruption, and relatively high levels of narcotics-associated activities

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Sudan

Background:
Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956. Sudan was embroiled in two prolonged civil wars during most of the remainder of the 20th century. These conflicts were rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of largely non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The first civil war ended in 1972 but broke out again in 1983. The second war and famine-related effects resulted in more than four million people displaced and, according to rebel estimates, more than two million deaths over a period of two decades. Peace talks gained momentum in 2002-04 with the signing of several accords. The final North/South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in January 2005, granted the southern rebels autonomy for six years. After which, a referendum for independence is scheduled to be held. A separate conflict, which broke out in the western region of Darfur in 2003, has displaced nearly two million people and caused an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 deaths. The UN took command of the Darfur peacekeeping operation from the African Union on 31 December 2007. As of early 2008, peacekeeping troops were struggling to stabilize the situation, which has become increasingly regional in scope, and has brought instability to eastern Chad, and Sudanese incursions into the Central African Republic. Sudan also has faced large refugee influxes from neighboring countries, primarily Ethiopia and Chad. Armed conflict, poor transport infrastructure, and lack of government support have chronically obstructed the provision of humanitarian assistance to affected populations.

Geography - note:
largest country in Africa; dominated by the Nile and its tributaries

Population:
40,218,455 (July 2008 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 50.28 years
male: 49.38 years
female: 51.23 years (2008 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
2.3% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
400,000 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
23,000 (2003 est.)

Ethnic groups:
black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%
Religions:
Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum), indigenous beliefs 25%

Political pressure groups and leaders:
Umma Party [Sadiq al-MAHDI]; Popular Congress Party or PCP [Hassan al-TURABI]

Economy Sudan Top of Page
Economy - overview:
Sudan's economy is booming on the back of increases in oil production, high oil prices, and large inflows of foreign direct investment. GDP growth registered more than 10% per year in 2006 and 2007. From 1997 to date, Sudan has been working with the IMF to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate. Sudan began exporting crude oil in the last quarter of 1999. Agricultural production remains important, because it employs 80% of the work force and contributes a third of GDP. The Darfur conflict, the aftermath of two decades of civil war in the south, the lack of basic infrastructure in large areas, and a reliance by much of the population on subsistence agriculture ensure much of the population will remain at or below the poverty line for years despite rapid rises in average per capita income. In January 2007, the government introduced a new currency, the Sudanese Pound, at an initial exchange rate of $1.00 equals 2 Sudanese Pounds.

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,500 (2007 est.)

Unemployment rate:
18.7% (2002 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.3% (2007 est.)

Internet users:
3.5 million (2006)

Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age for compulsory military service; 2-year service obligation (2006)

international:
the effects of Sudan's almost constant ethnic and rebel militia fighting since the mid-20th century have penetrated all of the neighboring states; as of 2006, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda provided shelter for over half a million Sudanese refugees, which includes 240,000 Darfur residents driven from their homes by Janjawid armed militia and the Sudanese military forces; Sudan, in turn, hosted about 116,000 Eritreans, 20,000 Chadians, and smaller numbers of Ethiopians, Ugandans, Central Africans, and Congolese as refugees; in February 2006, Sudan and DROC signed an agreement to repatriate 13,300 Sudanese and 6,800 Congolese; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia proceed slowly due to civil and ethnic fighting in eastern Sudan; the boundary that separates Kenya and Sudan's sovereignty is unclear in the "Ilemi Triangle," which Kenya has administered since colonial times; while Sudan claims to administer the Hala'ib Triangle north of the 1899 Treaty boundary along the 22nd Parallel; both states withdrew their military presence in the 1990s, and Egypt has invested in and effectively administers the area; periodic violent skirmishes with Sudanese residents over water and grazing rights persist among related pastoral populations along the border with the Central African Republic

Trafficking in persons:
current situation: Sudan is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; Sudan may also be a transit and destination country for Ethiopian women trafficked for domestic servitude; boys are trafficked to the Middle East, particularly Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, for use as camel jockeys; small numbers of girls are reportedly trafficked within Sudan for domestic servitude as well as for commercial sexual exploitation in small brothels in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps; the terrorist rebel organization "Lord's Resistance Army" (LRA) continues to abduct and forcibly conscript small numbers of children in Southern Sudan for use as cooks, porters, and combatants in its ongoing war against Uganda; some of these children are then trafficked across borders into Uganda or possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo; children are utilized by rebel groups and the Sudanese Armed Forces and associated militias in the ongoing conflict in Darfur; during the decades of civil war, thousands of Dinka women and children were enslaved by members of Baggara tribes and subjected to various forms of forced labor without remuneration as well as physical and sexual abuse; with the cessation of the North-South conflict and the ongoing peace process, there were no known new abductions of Dinka by Baggara tribes during 2005; however, inter-tribal abductions of a different nature continue in Southern Sudan and warrant further investigation
tier rating: Tier 3 - Sudan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so

Uganda

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Background:
The colonial boundaries created by Britain to delimit Uganda grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures. These differences prevented the establishment of a working political community after independence was achieved in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,000 lives. The rule of Yoweri MUSEVENI since 1986 has brought relative stability and economic growth to Uganda. During the 1990s, the government promulgated non-party presidential and legislative elections.

Population:
31,367,972

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
4.1% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
530,000 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
78,000 (2003 est.)

Ethnic groups:
Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6% (2002 census)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 41.9%, Protestant 42% (Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.5%), Muslim 12.1%, other 3.1%, none 0.9% (2002 census)

Economy - overview:
Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper, cobalt, gold, and other minerals. Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force. Coffee accounts for the bulk of export revenues. Since 1986, the government - with the support of foreign countries and international agencies - has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops, increasing prices of petroleum products, and improving civil service wages. The policy changes are especially aimed at dampening inflation and boosting production and export earnings. During 1990-2001, the economy turned in a solid performance based on continued investment in the rehabilitation of infrastructure, improved incentives for production and exports, reduced inflation, gradually improved domestic security, and the return of exiled Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs. Growth continues to be solid, despite variability in the price of coffee, Uganda's principal export, and a consistent upturn in Uganda's export markets. In 2000, Uganda qualified for enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief worth $1.3 billion and Paris Club debt relief worth $145 million. These amounts combined with the original HIPC debt relief added up to about $2 billion.

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,100 (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:
35% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.3%
highest 10%: 37.7% (2002)

Public debt:
20.6% of GDP (2007 est.)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.009 million (2006)

Internet users:
750,000 (2006)

Military service age and obligation:
18-26 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military duty; 18-30 years of age for professionals; 9-year service obligation; the government has stated that recruitment below 18 years of age could occur with proper consent and that "no person under the apparent age of 13 years shall be enrolled in the armed forces" (2007)

Disputes - international:
Uganda is subject to armed fighting among hostile ethnic groups, rebels, armed gangs, militias, and various government forces that extend across its borders; Uganda hosts 209,860 Sudanese, 27,560 Congolese, and 19,710 Rwandan refugees, while Ugandan refugees as well as members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) seek shelter in southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Garamba National Park; LRA forces have also attacked Kenyan villages across the border
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 212,857 (Sudan), 20,564 (Democratic Republic of Congo), 20,213 (Rwanda)
IDPs: 1.2-1.7 million (350,000 IDPs returned in 2006 following ongoing peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda) (2006)