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A team was formed to assess South Sudan's bid; however, in April 2014, the nation requested a delay in the admissions process, presumably due to South Sudanese Civil War. [44] [45] South Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, claimed publicly in October 2015 that, following evaluations and meetings of a special technical ...
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Arabic: محمد حمدان دقلو, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥamdān Daqlū, born 1974 or 1975), generally referred to mononymously as Hemedti [1] (Arabic: حميدتي, romanized: Ḥamīdtī; also spelled Hemetti [7] or Hemeti [8]; meaning "little Mohamed"), [9] is a Sudanese military officer and the current head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The National Archive of South Sudan is located in Juba, South Sudan. The collection consists of tens of thousands of Sudanese and Southern Sudanese government documents running from the early 1900s , through the independence of Sudan in 1956 and Sudan's First (1955–1972) and Second (1983–2005) civil wars, to the late 1990s. [ 1 ]
The South Sudanese wars of independence was the armed struggle for autonomy or independence of South Sudan from Sudan. Rebels in southern Sudan fought for greater self-determination against the central government of Sudan, which tried to suppress the uprising using the army and allied militias.
"Book Review: The Secret War in the Sudan: 1955–1972 by Edgar O'Ballance". African Affairs 78 (310):132–7. O'Ballance, Edgar. 1977. The Secret War in the Sudan: 1955–1972. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books. (Faber and Faber edition ISBN 0-571-10768-0). Poggo, Scopas Sekwat. 1999. War and Conflict in Southern Sudan, 1955–1972. PhD ...
At independence, South Sudan was at war with at least seven armed groups. [47] According to UN figures, the various conflicts affected nine of its ten states, with tens of thousands displaced. [47] Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) also operates in a wide area that includes South Sudan. [48]
The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2020, between forces of the government and opposition forces. The Civil War caused rampant human rights abuses , including forced displacement, ethnic massacres, and killings of journalists by various parties.
The South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF), formerly the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), is the military force of the Republic of South Sudan.The SPLA was founded as a guerrilla movement against the government of Sudan in 1983 and was a key participant of the Second Sudanese Civil War and the subsequent independence of South Sudan.