Sudan aside, there is cause for optimism in Africa

Sudan civil war an outlier in Africa

There are 55 countries in Africa, and but only two have open wars. Even that many nations are not nearly enough to provide each major ethnic and linguistic group with its own sovereign territory.

Sudan aside, there is cause for optimism in Africa

There is no hope of better to come for the civil war in Sudan. PHOTO: REUTERS Last Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: "Many have given up on Sudan, but that is wrong. It’s morally wrong when we see so many civilians beheaded, infants as young as 1 subjected to sexual violence, more people facing famine than anywhere else in the world ... We simply cannot look away."