Sudan, country located in northeastern Africa at the southern edge of the Sahara. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is located roughly in the center of the country, at the junction of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. Sudan is one of the largest countries i
Gaitano was born in Khartoum, to parents originally from southern Sudan, who had taken refuge in the city during Sudan’s civil war in the 1960s. She spoke her family’s Latuka language at home, Sudanese Arabic with her friends, and was educated in classical Arabic and lat...
from the Rohingyas of Myanmar to the Uighurs of China, it is the same story. The crescent extending from Kabul to Tripoli lies in ruins, embracing the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Bosnia, Sudan, Palestine...
First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)- A civil war between the largely Muslim Arab north and the mostly Christian Black south. French-Tunisian Clashes (1958, 1961) Algerian-Moroccan Border War (1963-1964) Chad Civil Wars Saharan War (1975-Present)-Morocco and Mauritania against the Polisario ...
A mutiny in 1897 of the Sudanese troops used by the colonial government led Britain to take a more active interest in the Uganda Protectorate, and in 1899 Sir Harry Johnston was commissioned to visit the country and to make recommendations on its future administration. The main outcome of his...
Constructing a national narrative in civil war: history teaching and national unity in South SudanThis article analyses history teaching in South Sudanese secondary schools and focuses on the interplay of local context, curricular intentions, and teachers' agency. Drawing on ethnographic data, the ...
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson Read expert recommendations “It’s about the period of American history between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the beginning of the American Civil War. (Note that in the UK, the...
from Saudi soil. As time went on, he expanded his objective to include reform of the Saudi political system. Expelled from Saudi Arabia, he first sought refuge in the Sudan. The Sudanese government buckled under American pressure and asked him to leave. Osama found refuge in the mountains ...
Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and south, have exploded in Darfur. In his...
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