ri vs sudan
...droughts and famine. The leading export crops are cotton, sesame, and peanuts. Other agricultural products include sorghum, millet, wheat, dates, and sugarcane. Sheep, cattle, goats, and camels are raised are also raised. Continuous insecurity due to the civil war between the north and south and poor weather keep most of the population in poverty. Civil War, oil, war and famine have caused many deaths and people being displaced. Sudan has been divided in a bitter civil war between northern and southern Sudan. The war is being fought for the control over natural resources such as land, livestock water, and oil. War has caused much harm to the Sudanese people such as malnutrition and disease. The government is using a ‘scorched earth’ policy to clear the land of civilians and to make way for exploitation of oil. They also have used the roads, bridges and airfields built by the oil companies, to attack civilians in the south oil region. The Sudanese government has used the oil money in conducting scorched earth campaigns to drive hundreds of thousands of farmers from their homes that resides close or on potential oil fields. Government forces and militias have destroyed harvests, looted livestock, and burned houses to ensure that no one will return home. “The government now earns roughly US$1 million a day from oil equivalent to the US$1 million it spends daily fighting the war. The equation is simple, the consequences are devastating”.(http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/s/23E203642DF3801485256A15007EA387) ,said General Mohamed Yassin. Money collected from oil revenues has allowed the government to purchase more weaponry and thus prolong the war and increase the devastation of the people of Sudan. Many oil companies have become Sudan’s partners as they provide the market with oil and the finances need for Sudan to continue its war. Conversely, oil is being controlled in a completely different way in Rhode Island. Rhode Island is restoring the North Cape after an oil spill, trying to save any life possible. If anything is accidentally destroyed, it is imperative that it be fixed as soon as possible. In South Kingston Rhode Island, a tugboat pushing an oil barge caught fire during a severe winter storm. The barge's cargo of oil spilled, resulting in damages done to the marine life from Rhode Island's south shore and saltwater ponds out to Block Island. Reports indicated that several hundred thousand of lobsters and shell fish, washed upon shore during the weeks that followed the spill. Besides the birds and marine life, there are other casualties that were also endure like the fisherman, who lost revenue due to all that were killed marine life. The state of Rhode Island lost money because of the feared extending contamination of the water that occurred during the spring and summer. The restoration process is to restock “1.5 million adult lobsters, stock shellfish in the coastal ponds, protect water quality by acquiring land adjacent to the salt ponds, improve shore access and restore fish. Lobsters would be restored by increasing the number of lobster eggs in Block Island Sound through release of 1.2 million females and 300,000 males each marked with a v-shaped notch, and prohibiting the catch of v-notched lobsters”.( http://www.state.ri.us/dem/pubs/damage/0915981.htm) Health and sanitary conditions are very important especially in Sudan. Sudan has poorly developed systems for health care. Large parts of Sudan's population suffer from poor hygiene, bad infrastructure and bad water quality. Diseases in Sudan include malaria, dysentery and other gastrointestinal diseases, and tuberculosis, Bilharziasis, Trypanosomiasis, sleeping sickness, is a widespread disease. Meningitis, measles, whooping cough, infectious hepatitis, syphilis and gonorrhea are relatively common diseases. Health care facilities, have been left empty without supplies because of the economic situation. Wide spread malnutrition makes people more sus...