Sudan's post-colonialism and its struggles Between 1820 and 1956, Sudan was colonized by empires; however, the one that left a legacy still visible today was that of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Like most other European colonies, the English took license to draw borders around territories with little regard for the ethnic groups living in the region. The new borders created by the British in southern Sudan supported and isolated the many different tribes residing there. As a result, these groups began to go to war with each other, and the British were reluctant to intervene. The miserable state of Sudan today can be attributed to the legacy of British rule and the ethnic rivalries it left behind. The reality of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium was that the Egyptians had very little influence over what happened in Sudan; the British took control of the government and policies of Sudan. In 1978, Francis M. Deng, a human rights official who served in the United Nations Secretariat from 1967 to 1972, described the Condominium government as a “British government with Egypt as its half-stamp.” The Egyptians had considerable power by law, but in reality they had little or no power over Sudanese affairs; all Sudanese internal affairs were controlled and monitored by Britain. The British had control over many other colonies at the time, so they couldn't pay as much attention to the Sudanese. They ruled Sudan through the use of “divide and conquer policy”. This allowed the British to draw new borders around several provinces of Sudan, isolating and separating the different tribes that thrived on the territory. As a result, the Sudanese population distrusted and fought each other. But this worked in Britain's favor because... mid-paper... the HDI has always been low compared to other countries: in 2012, Sudan has a HDI of 0.414, which is low compared to other countries as wealthy as Norway with its HDI of 0.955. Their low HDI numbers are due to many reasons, one of which is that the war has forced many South Sudanese citizens to flee, leaving them to reside in refugee camps with less than satisfactory sanitary conditions. WRITE MORE ABOUT HIS HEALTHY CONDITION. As a result, masses of South Sudanese are moving north and into Ethiopia in search of better living conditions. The situation in Sudan has become so bad that many of its citizens no longer wish to live there. Sudan today is a broken country filled with many problems ranging from discontent with the government to famine and disease due to the lasting effects of its colonization. under the Anglo-Egyptian condominium.