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The Darfur civil war in the Sudan erupted in April 2003 while negotiations to end the north-south civil war were in the process. In a short span of time, the number of deaths from the Darfur civil war reached more than 200,000 people, and another two million Darfurians have been displaced either inside or outside of the Sudan. Not only were outsiders shocked by this, but the Sudanese themselves were also startled by the sudden eruption of another civil war in their remote western region. Soon, Western media reported it as either 'ethnic cleansing' or 'genocide' and called it the worst humanitarian disaster in recent time. The Darfur civil war is, however, the result of a long period of conflict between the settled African and the nomadic Arab tribes because of the desertification of the northern region due to both manmade and natural causes. The whole region experienced one of the worst famines in 1984-85. The conflict between the two groups has been escalated since then. The conflict, however, has been managed by the traditional moral order until the power struggle between President Bashir and Hasan al-Turabi began in 1999. Although the background of the Darfur civil war is a long story, the actual civil war started in 2003 because general conditions for a civil war were met at the time.