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**President:** Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR- comes from Al-Bedairya Al-Dahmashya, an Arab tribe in north of Sudan. Omar al-Bashir has managed to achieve economic growth in Sudan. This is because of the drilling and trading with oil from Southern Sudan, with Chinese and Russian firms participating. Before becoming president, he was involved in the military coup. **Country**: Sudan Geography: Northern Africa, in between Eritrea and Egypt. A little smaller than 1/4 of the U.S. weather is tropical in the south, and Dry/arid in the south. Terrain is generally flat with mountains in the far south, northeast, and west. Their main natural resources are petroleum, small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, hydropower, and gold. It is the largest country in Africa. **Economy**: Economy was booming (because of the oil cost being so high) until the end of 2008. The official exchange rate is 54.68 billion dollars. 80% of the labor force is agricultural. The unemployment rate is 18.7% Population: 41,087,825 as of July 2010. aprox. 59% of the population is age 15-64. HIV/AIDS is problem and Sudan is ranked 19th in the world for deaths caused by it. **Social Structure:** 61% of the population is literate. Women were segregated in the past, but less in current day. The main religions in Sudan are Muslim, Christian, and Animism Background: Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR comes from Al-Bedairya Al-Dahmashya, an Arab tribe in north of Sudan. Omar al-Bashir has managed to achieve economic growth in Sudan. This is because of the drilling and trading with oil from Southern Sudan, with Chinese and Russian firms participating **References:** Chinese President Hu Jintao- China has agreed on a series of economic deals in Sudan Al-Bashir has strong political support from African nations who believe the ICC is singling out Africa whilst ignoring war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the United States **How Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR measures up to...** **Safety and rule of law**: Bashir has several warrants out for his arrest (none of which he's yielded to) for a variety of things, including (but not limited to) war crimes and crimes against humanity. He's not doing so well with safety and rule of law **Participation and Human Rights**: Bashir has been traveling to various countries recently. However he has been charged with (among other things) genocide, one would probably not think Human rights are very high on his list of priorities. <span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 16px;">Sustainable Economic Opportunity: Sudan has a good resource of oil, petroleum, small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, hydropower, and gold which comes with a lot of economic opportunity. Sudan is taking advantage of this in a variety of ways, including arranging deals with China for oil. <span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 16px;">**Human Developmaent:** Sudan used to segregate women from men, because they thought women were not as good as men. However this segregation has decreased a lot over the years. <span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 16px;"> Works Cited "AllAfrica.com: Sudan: President and Criminal Court in Cat-and-Mouse Game." //AllAfrica.com: Home//. Web. 19 Sept. 2010. <http://allafrica.com/stories/201008280183.html>. Category, By. "Religion in Sudan: Women and Family." //Agnosticism / Atheism - Free Inquiry, Skepticism, Atheism, Religious Philosophy//. Web. 19 Sept. 2010. []. "Sudan: Facts on Sudan." //1A1: Sudan Page @Sudan.Net//. Web. 19 Sept. 2010. <http://www.sudan.net/fact.shtml>.
 * "CIA - The World Factbook." //Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency//. Web. 17 Sept. 2010. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/su.html#top>.