ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to construe the word border as meaning other frontiers besides physical or geographical boundaries. It focuses on the possibilities for intervention in the Sudan civil war and examines the intervention possibilities in the Sudan civil war in terms of the multiple dividing lines. In several respects that could be pertinent to the conduct of the civil war, the Sudan is either a crucial borderland or has inside it borders that are crucial. The reality of the phase of idealism in African inter-state relations was well evidenced, for example, by Uganda’s foreign policy toward the Sudan in the Obote era, as the following case will show. The state of affairs in the Sudan is barely known even in the countries as close as Uganda, Kenya and the Congo. The Sudan civil war could have a complex system of border implications, all arising from what one student has described as the “multiple marginality” of the Sudan.
