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320 thE sudan handbook Sudan. Native Administration is formally abolished with the introduction of the People’s Local Government ...

ChRonoloGy 321 1981 Nimeiri introduces stringent economic measures on recommendation of IMF. Railway-workers strike in Atbara; r ...

322 thE sudan handbook Bashir who becomes the Chairman of the newly formed Revolutionary Command Council. Northern opposition pa ...

ChRonoloGy 323 Ababa. Bashir visits Beijing and secures Chinese support for oil development. 1996 Presidential elections, critic ...

324 thE sudan handbook for a peace agreement and provides for a referendum on self-determination for the south. 2003 Heavy fight ...

ChRonoloGy 325 the east, signs the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement with Khartoum. 2007 The International Criminal Court issues arr ...

326 Key Figures in Sudanese History, Culture & Politics Abdallahi al-Taisha (1846–1899). The Khalifa. Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahd ...

ChRonoloGy 327 Nimeiri as the leader of the communist-affiliated Free Officers group to power in 1969. In 1971, Abdel Khaliq Mah ...

328 thE sudan handbook Abd al-Rahman SiWaR al-Dahab (b.1930). Born in El-Obeid graduated from the Sudanese Military Academy and ...

kEy fiGuREs in sudanEsE histoRy, CultuRE & PolitiCs 329 of Sudan from 1972 to 1981 and President of the Southern High Execut ...

330 thE sudan handbook Ali Abd al-Latif (c.1892–1948). Born in Wadi Halfa to Nuba and Dinka parents, former slaves. A graduate o ...

kEy fiGuREs in sudanEsE histoRy, CultuRE & PolitiCs 331 al-Bashir and distanced himself from his former mentor. He negotiate ...

332 thE sudan handbook by Nimeiri (1983–4), then went into exile in the UK. After Nimeiri’s overthrow in 1985 he returned to Kha ...

kEy fiGuREs in sudanEsE histoRy, CultuRE & PolitiCs 333 GoRdon MuoRtat MayEn (1922–2006). Politician. Born in Karagok villag ...

334 thE sudan handbook Congress Party, and on a number of occasions has publicly criticized Omar al-Bashir and the National Cong ...

kEy fiGuREs in sudanEsE histoRy, CultuRE & PolitiCs 335 political group calling for the unity of the Nile Valley. He became ...

336 thE sudan handbook PhD in Agricultural Economics. In 1983 he became leader of the SPLM/A, with the stated aim of creating a ...

kEy fiGuREs in sudanEsE histoRy, CultuRE & PolitiCs 337 Khalil IbRahim MohamEd. Chairman of the Justice and Equality Movemen ...

338 thE sudan handbook worked briefly for Sudan railways before starting his own engineering business. In 1945 he founded, with ...

kEy fiGuREs in sudanEsE histoRy, CultuRE & PolitiCs 339 asleep he set fire to their camp, burning them all alive. Muhammad A ...