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The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated in southern Sudan, the civil war spread to the Nuba mountains and the Blue Nile. It lasted for almost ...
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.
On 16th of May 1983, Bol and William Nyuon Bany led a mutiny against the Sudanese government in Bor, in southern Sudan, with their forces of the 105th Battalion firing the first bullet that sparked the Second Sudanese Civil War and consequently led to the foundation of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).
The first civil war lasted from 1955 to 1972, and the second civil war from 1983 to 2005. The reasons for the conflict were the large ethnic, cultural, and religious differences between southern and northern Sudan, the economic exploitation of the natural resources of the south by the north, and the lack of political participation of the ...
The SPLM was formed as a Marxist-Leninist, [10] socialist, [11] rebel movement on 16 May 1983, after the Government of Sudan's abandonment of the Addis Ababa Agreement signed between the government of Gaafar Nimeiry and the Anyanya leader Joseph Lagu, who had first introduced the southern Sudanese to the effective political, economic, social, educational, and religious situations they would ...
The Southern Sudan Autonomous Region was an autonomous region that existed in southern Sudan between 1972 and 1983. [1] It was established on 28 February 1972 by the Addis Ababa Agreement which ended the First Sudanese Civil War. [2] The region was abolished on 5 June 1983 by the administration of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry. [3]
He was forced to leave South Sudan as a young child, escaping the Second Sudanese Civil War. He and his family moved to Cairo two weeks after he was born before eventually arriving in the United ...
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]