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The Sudan question: the dispute over the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1884–1951 (1952) Duncan, J.S.R. The Sudan: a record of achievement (1952), from the British perspective; Gee, Martha Bettis (2009). Piece work/peace work : working together for peace and Sudan : mission study for children and teacher's guide. Women's Division, General Board ...
The Government of Sudan is the federal provisional government created by the Constitution of Sudan having executive, parliamentary, and the judicial branches. Previously, a president was head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces in a de jure multi-party system.
A power-sharing government was established. October: An autonomous government was formed in southern Sudan. 2006: May: The government signed a peace accord with a Darfur rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement. October: Jan Pronk, head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, was expelled from the country. November
Until its gradual suppression in the 1860s, the slave trade was the most profitable undertaking in Sudan and was the focus of Egyptian interests in the country. The government encouraged economic development through state monopolies that had exported slaves, ivory, and gum arabic.
The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital Sennar) or Blue Sultanate (due to the traditional Sudanese convention of referring to black people as blue) [10] (Arabic: السلطنة الزرقاء, romanized: al-Sulṭanah al-Zarqāʼ), [11] was a monarchy in what is now Sudan, northwestern Eritrea and western Ethiopia.
The Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, was a state based on a religious and political movement launched in 1881 by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah (later Muhammad al-Mahdi) against the Khedivate of Egypt, which had ruled Sudan since 1821.
A map of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (orange) in 1912. Standard of the Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The governors of pre-independence Sudan were the colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Turco-Egyptian Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, an area equivalent to modern-day Sudan and South Sudan.
The People's Local Government Act of 1981 linked the new local government system to a new system of regional governments. [ 4 ] : 440 To some extent the native administration system was maintained in border regions and the restive Southern Sudan Autonomous Region , to maintain security.