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The Country & People of Sudan

Sudan - Republic of the Sudan - Jumhuriyat as-Sudan

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Sudan, officially Republic of the Sudan, republic (1995 est. pop. 30,120,000), 967,494 sq mi (2,505,813 sq km), the largest country in Africa, bordered by Egypt (N), the Red Sea (NE), Eritrea and Ethiopia (E), Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S), the Central African Republic and Chad (W), and Libya (NW). The principal cities are Khartoum (the capital) and Omdurman. The most notable geographical feature is the Nile R., which, with its tributaries, flows through eastern Sudan from south to north. Rainfall in Sudan diminishes from south to north; thus the southern part of the country is characterized by swampland and rain forest, the central region by savanna and grassland, and the north by desert and semidesert. There are mountains in the northeast, south, arab, and west; the highest point is Kinyetti (10,456 ft/3,187 m), in the southeast. Agriculture, mostly of a subsistence nature, dominates the economy. Long-staple cotton, the principal cash crop, is raised in the irrigated Al Gezira region. Other crops include sesame, sorghum, millet, peanuts, dates, and sugarcane. Cotton, sesame, gum arabic (much of the world's production), livestock, and peanuts are exported. The small mining industry extracts chromite, copper and manganese ores, gypsum, and gold. Industry is largely devoted to the processing of agricultural products. The population is divided into three main groups: northerners, who are Muslim and speak Arabic (the official language); westerners, largely Muslim and originally (20th cent.) from W Africa; and southerners, who follow traditional beliefs mostly and speak Nilotic languages. There is a Christian minority in the south.

History
Northeast Sudan, called Nubia in ancient times, was colonized by Egypt about 2000 BC and was ruled by the Cush kingdom from the 8th cent. BC to the 4th cent AD Most of Nubia was converted to Coptic Christianity in the 6th cent., but by the 15th cent. Islam prevailed. In 1821 the north was conquered by Egypt, but a revolt by the nationalist Mahdi in 1881 forced an Egyptian withdrawal. In the 1890s an Anglo-Egyptian force under Herbert Kitchener destroyed the theocratic Mahdist state, and in 1899 most of Sudan came under the joint rule of Egypt and Britain (with Britain exercising actual control).

Independence was achieved in 1956. In 1955 the animist southerners, fearing that the new nation would be dominated by the Muslim north, began a civil war that lasted 17 years. In 1972 Pres. Muhammad Gaafar al-Nimeiry ended the war by granting the south a measure of autonomy. However, his imposition of Islamic law on the entire country in 1983 reopened the conflict, and close to 2 million have died since, many from starvation.

Nimeiry was deposed by a military coup in 1986. A short-lived civilian government was overthrown in 1989 by Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir; he officially became president in 1993 and was elected to the post in 1996. Bashir's government reinstituted Islamic law, banned opposition parties, and jailed dissidents. Throughout the 1990s the army mounted offensives against the rebels in S Sudan; several cease-fires were announced to allow the distribution of food to famine victims, but they did not hold. In recent years Sudan has supported Muslim fundamentalists internationally.

In 1998 U.S. missiles destroyed a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum that was suspected of manufacturing chemical weapon compounds to be used in terrorist activities, but international investigators were unable to find evidence to support the charges.

In late 1999 a power struggle developed between Bashir and the speaker of the parliament, Hassan al-Turabi. Bashir dissolved parliament and in 2000 also secured his control of the ruling National Congress party. In Dec. 2000 he was reelected president, and his party swept the parlimentary elections; the opposition boycotted the vote. Turabi was put under house arrest in Feb. 2001 after signing an agreement with the rebels calling for peaceful resistance to Bashir's government.

The government and rebels agreed in July 2002 to a framework for peace that called for autonomy for the south and a referendum on independence after six years, and a truce was signed in October. Despite some cease-fire violations, talks continued in 2003. The Darfur rebels subsequently agreed to form alliance with the Beja rebels in NE Sudan (around Kasala) if they were not included in any settlement with the government; the Beja group had expected to be part of the negotiations with the southern rebels.

Militias allied with the government in Darfur (and the government itself) were accused of ethnic cleansing, and perhaps as many as 800,000 Sudanese were displaced by the fighting, with many of them fleeing to Chad. A new cease-fire was signed in Apr., 2004, but it too did not hold. Also in April, Turabi and members of his party were again arrested by the government, which accused them of plotting against it; in September the government asserted that a new coup plot involving the jailed Turabi had been uncovered.

There was increasing pressure in mid-2004 from the United Nations, United States, and European Union on Sudan to end the attacks in Darfur, and in July, 2004, Bashir’s government promised the United Nations that it would disarm the militias. A lack of significant progress in ending the fighting and disarming the militias led to UN Security Council resolutions against Sudan in July and September. The latter resolution called for an investigation into whether the attacks were genocide, as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had charged. By October it was estimated that 1.5 million had been displaced by the conflict in Darfur. Meanwhile, there were attacks against Sudanese in the south by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, leading both southern Sudanese rebels and government-allied militias to mount a drive against the LRA.

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Port Sudan One of Sudan's deep-water ports on the Red Sea. Gateway to Sudan....
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Organization of Islamic Countries +Arabic The most comprehensive database: statistical, economic and social
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Sudan and the IMF Position in the fund, reports....
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Amir Tagelsir +Arabic Writer, novelist, poet....
Shiekh Abdel Rahim Al Bori Arabic A leading Sufi figure in Sudan, biography, works, photos, forum, Al-Zreibah....

 

Arab Film Distribution - Sudan Features a wide range of narrative films, documentaries, visual essays and ethnographic films
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Ahfad University for Women A private university in Sudan dedicated to educating women - Omdurman
Bayan Science and Technology College +Arabic Electronic systems engineering and computer and information science
College of Medicine Arabic At University of Khartoum
College of Technological Sciences Arabic
Computerman College Computer engineering, computer sciences, information technology....
Neelain University Arabic Khartoum
Sudan University of Science and Technology +Arabic
University of Khartoum Located in Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman

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Association for the Promotion Scientific Innovation +Arabic Promoting creative people in the applied and technological fields
Higher Education Admission Board Arabic
Sudan-American Foundation for Education Seeks to improve education in Sudan
Sudan Volunteer Programme A London based charity dedicated to sending graduates to Sudan to teach English

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Postgraduate Medical Studies Board Bi-monthly bulletin
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Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan - CASMAS A human rights abolitionist movement
Human Rights Watch +Arabic Other languages Human rights developments & report
US Department of State Country reports on human rights practices

 

Sudan Alliance Forces +Arabic Overthrowing the Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship. Replacing it with a functioning democracy
Free Sudan Center Freedom, human rights and democracy in Sudan
Umma Party Together for liberation, unity and development

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Nile Kids Online magazine in English for Sudanese kids
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Committee For Executing National Register Of Sudanese Experts Arabic
Council Of The Ministers +Arabic Information concerning investment ,econmic growth, cabinet ministries and members
Geological Research Authority The principal point of contact for investors in the mining sector
Ministry of Higher Education & Science Research Arabic
Ministry of Investment +Arabic Creating a favorable investment climate and developing promotional tools
National Information Centre Arabic
Sudan Customs +Arabic Collect indirect taxes from imports, exports and excise
Sudan Government Arabic
Taxation Chamber +Arabic Business profits Tax , the personal income Tax , the real estates Tax and the stamp duties

 

Embassy of Sudan - Berlin, Germany Arabic Deutsch
Embassy of Sudan - Bucharest, Romania +Romana Consular affairs, economy & business, human rights, slavery, tourism, Sudan....
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Al-Mahgoub Foundation Main concern is the well being and the good future of Sudan
Khartoum Cheshire Home A rehabilitation center for children with a physical disability
Sudan Internet Society addressing key issues about the roles and uses of Internet

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British Counsil Library and information services, events, news, conferences, learn English
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International Rescue Committee Sudan. Program Activities: Women in Development, Health, Capacity Building for Sudanese Organizations
International Rescue Committee South Sudan. Involved in education and training, primary health care, water and sanitation....
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Sea Desert Tours Dedicated to maximizing the ease and comfort for travelers both within Libya , Egypt and Sudan
Raidan Travel & Tours Tourism in Sudan icluding visa arrangements

 

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