The people living in the North African nation of Sudan have suffered through one of the longest periods in current history of back-to-back civil wars. After one civil war ended in 1972, another broke out again in 1983. The second war and its famine-related effects resulted, according to some sources, in more than 2 million deaths over a period of two decades, and more than 4 million people displaced as refugees.

In January 2005, peace talks culminated in a peace agreement that stopped much of the fighting and granted South Sudan autonomy for six years. Although drawn on world maps as just one country, North and South Sudan are cultural worlds apart. The northern Arab Muslim government continues to try and dominate politically, economically, and spiritually the largely non-Arab, non-Muslim Sudanese people in the south.

• Pray lasting reconciliation between North and South Sudan and an end to the cycle of civil war. 
• Pray that the Sudanese people would hear of and trust in the Prince of Peace.