ocr: Sudan has a large number of ethnic and linguistic groups. About two million Sudanese are nomads. The major social division, however, is between the Arabized Muslims in the north and the mostly African, largely animist or Christian population in the south. Attempts to: impose Arab and Islamic values throughout Sudan have been the root cause ofthe civil war that has ravaged the south since 1983. However, the rebels have now split into two factions, pitting southern Sudan's small ethnic groups against the Dinka, the south's largest tribe. There are some non-Arab groups in the north and the densel ...
