Sudan is the answer. Sudan located in northeastern Africa, is Africa's largest country. Sudan is predominantly an arid (dry), desert land except immediately around the Nile River, which flows northward through central and eastern Sudan. Sudan gained independence from Britain in 1956 but became embattled in civil war for much of the second half of the twentieth century. The first civil war ended in 1972, but the region had only about a decade before a second civil war broke out in 1983 and continued until January 2005. The wars were rooted in strife between the Arab Muslims in the north who control the political, economic, and social web of the country, and the people of the southern region, where the country's oil resources are located. The southern people are Christian.
