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  Equatoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Equatoria (Al-Istiwa'iyah in Arabic) began as a province of Egypt, located in the extreme south of present-day Sudan along the upper reaches of the White Nile.
Equatoria was established by Samuel Baker in 1870.
The state of Bahr al Ghazal was split from Equatoria in 1948.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equatoria   (265 words)

  
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Equatoria was established by British explorer, Samuel Baker in 1870.
In 1878 Gordon was succeeded by the Chief Medical Officer of the Equatoria province, Eduard Carl Oscar popularly known as Mehemet Amin Pasha.
Equatoria was closed to outside influences and developed along indigenous lines.
cmsu2.cmsu.edu /~lkl03000/bhistory.htm   (1478 words)

  
 Emin Pasha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1847) Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, was a physician, naturalist and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile.
Charles George Gordon, then governor of Equatoria, heard of Emin's presence and invited him to be the chief medical officer of the province; Emin assented and arrived there in May 1876.
Determined to remain in Equatoria, his communiques, carried by his friend Wilhelm Junker, aroused considerable sentiment in Europe in 1886, particularly acute after the death of Gordon the previous year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emin_Pasha   (846 words)

  
 Report on the regional seminar on artisanal fishermen's migrations in West Africa-Appendix.4
Equatoria is a fictitious country which is not modeled on any specific West African nation, though some of Equatoria's problems may be encountered here and there in real countries.
The sandy plains of Western Province, the mangrove swamps of Delta Province and the steep mountains of Eastern Province are for the most part unsuitable for cultivation.
As the ACAS fisheries team, you are called into Equatoria to try to settle the differences between the two groups of fishermen in collaboration with the Equatoria Dept. of Fisheries.
www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/AC881E/AC881E09.htm   (3297 words)

  
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In 1881 agents began inciting the negroid tribes in the northern region of the province to revolt against Egyptian oppression.
The Invasion of Equatoria was delayed several months by a revolt of Jihadiyya troops in Bahr al-Ghazal along the Wau-Rumbek road.
Baker's picturesque and flawed impressions of conditions in Equatoria during his tenure there are found in: Sir Samuel Baker, Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 2 vols.
vlib.iue.it /carrie/texts/carrie_books/sconyers/00-2.html   (6017 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Sudan
Santandrea to be in Hobbinya District of Southern Dar Fur Province.
Northern Sudan, Dar Fur Province, Dar Masalit and Nyala District, scattered colonies in Dar Fongoro and to the south and east, and Gedaref region; Geneina, Mistere, and Habila Kajangise.
Southern Sudan, Torit District, eastern Equatoria Province, east and southeast of the Luluba and the Lokoya.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Suda.html   (6636 words)

  
 Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever
The shortage of medical and public health personnel in the area was a big constraint and this was aggravated by lack of facilities such as transport and protective clothing.
Actually by the time the incidence of disease was highest in Maridi, the epidemic had subsided in the rest of the province (Nzara, Tambura, etc.) but nevertheless, we had to cover those areas during surveillance visits.
Before the Epidemic Control team withdrew on December 7, 1976, the public health personnel of the province were instructed to continue surveillance activities for six months after the disease was declared eradicated on December 15, 1976.
www.itg.be /ebola/ebola-31.htm   (1937 words)

  
 Sudan States
On 2005-04-01, Bahr-al-Jabal state changed its name to Central Equatoria.
There is a small region in Sudan, south of 22°, administered by Egypt, and a larger triangle in Egypt, north of the parallel, administered by Sudan (in Red Sea state).
~1976: El Buheyrat province split from Bahr el Ghazal; Equatoria province divided into Eastern Equatoria and Western Equatoria; Junglei province split from Upper Nile.
www.statoids.com /usd.html   (928 words)

  
 Nubia 2 - Crystalinks
Baker remained in equatorial Africa until 1873, where he established the Equatoria province as part of the Egyptian Sudan.
Isma'il next offered the governorship of the Equatoria province to another Englishman, Charles George Gordon, who in China had won fame and the sobriquet Chinese Gordon.
His object was the same as Baker's--to consolidate Egyptian authority in Equatoria and to establish Egyptian sovereignty over the kingdoms of the great East African lakes.
www.crystalinks.com /nubia2.html   (4335 words)

  
 Beekeeping in South Sudan
Equatoria Foods Maridi, a locally registered ethical business, works with traditional beekeepers in southern Sudan to develop the beekeeping potential in Western Equatoria province.
Farmers benefit from training provided by Equatoria Foods to improve the quality of honey harvested, the provision of harvesting buckets as well as a guaranteed market for their honey and wax.
The initiative is supported by USAID as a means to alleviate poverty using local resources in a sustainable manner.
www.apiconsult.com /south-sudan.htm   (258 words)

  
 Sudan - THE TURKIYAH, 1821-85
As a pashalik of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt had been divided into several provinces, each of which was placed under a Mamluk bey (governor) reponsible to the pasha, who in turn answered to the Porte, the term used for the Ottoman government referring to the Sublime Porte, or high gate, of the grand vizier's building.
Egypt organized and garrisoned the new provinces of Upper Nile, Bahr al Ghazal, and Equatoria and, in 1874, conquered and annexed Darfur.
There is little documentation for the history of the southern Sudanese provinces until the introduction of the Turkiyah in the north in the early 1820s and the subsequent extension of slave raiding into the south.
countrystudies.us /sudan/11.htm   (1659 words)

  
 MSF-USA: 2004 Activity Report - Sudan
MSF closed a sleeping sickness program in the Western Equatoria town of Kirii after successfully reducing the number of cases to the region's normal level.
Approximately 3,300 patients received treatment for the disease through MSF projects in the towns of Walgak, Wudier and Lankien in Upper Nile province, in Umm el Kher in the eastern state of Gadaref and in Bentiu in Western Upper Nile province.
In May and June 2004, an outbreak of the hemorrhagic Ebola virus occurred near the town of Yambio, in Eastern Equatoria province.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2004/sudan.cfm   (1032 words)

  
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The clashes erupted in Eastern Equatoria province, where fierce battles have taken place since last week, said Gen. Sir al-Khatim.
The claim was the latest by Sudanthat Uganda had sent troops to fight with southern Sudanese rebels involved in a 15-year civil war- an accusation Uganda has repeatedly denied.
Omar el-Bashir, paid a surprise visitto the strategic town of Juba in Equatoria province and warned of a major battle to keep the town in government hands.
members.tripod.com /~SudanInfonet/Scioj98.txt   (3859 words)

  
 Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the year there was fighting between the government and opposition forces in different areas of southern Sudan (particularly in the Bahr al-Ghazal province in January and February and in Equatoria Province in September and October), in the east (Blue Nile State), in the north-east along the border with Eritrea and in the Nuba mountains.
The combination of years of conflict and insecurity, large-scale population displacements and two years of drought had deprived people of their ability to survive by their own means and they were heading rapidly towards destitution.
The worst was over in Bahr al-Ghazal province, although the situ-ation in the Upper Nile, Eastern Equatoria and Jonglei remained unstable, owing mainly to the fragile security environment and adverse weather conditions, and access to these regions was still difficult for humanitarian organizations.
www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList165/39FD03BD530AC63DC1256B890033D63C   (3046 words)

  
 AFRICA
Formerly rebel-held towns and areas in Equatoria province were captured by the government, using means which included indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas.
Mundri in Sudan's Western Equatoria province was bombed by the government of Sudan for several days in early October.
In mid-1994 faction fighting again disrupted life in Lafon village of Eastern Equatoria; there were faction clashes there in early 1993 when Lafon was burned to the ground with dozens of civilian casualties.
www.hrw.org /reports/1995/WR95/AFRICA-10.htm   (2802 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : The Khedive's Cartographers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Colston's successor as commander of the expedition was Colonel Henry G. Prout, an ex-Union officer from New York, who continued into the province of Darfur, a formerly independent sultanate which had recently been conquered by a Sudano-Egyptian army.
Prout then served as governor of the Equatoria Province for a short period in 1876, after the first resignation of Gordon from that post.
It is astounding, therefore, to read in his letter to George Hurlbut, librarian of the American Geographical Society, his opinion of Emin Pasha, governor of Egypt's Equatoria Province in 1887 - whom the famous Henry M. Stanley, of Stanley and Livingstone fame, set out to rescue when the Mahdist revolt trapped him near Lake Albert.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198405/the.khedive.s.cartographers.htm   (2065 words)

  
 SYMPOSIUM ON AQUACULTURE IN AFRICA / SYMPOSIUM SUR L'AQUICULTURE EN AFRIQUE
In Equatoria Province there are artificial ponds, private and Governmental, and dams distributed in several localities: Yei, Maridi, Yambio, Nzara, Ezo and Li-Yu-Bu.
With respect to Equatoria Province, there is a chronic shortage of meat due to the ravages of the tsetse fly particularly in the Zandi Region (FAO, 1973).
Fish farming is one of the most effective ways of increasing the supply of animal protein in the diet, and inland fisheries are important in the economic and community life of the Western Equatoria Province”.
www.fao.org /docrep/005/AC672B/AC672B05.htm   (11305 words)

  
 Theileriosis in the Equatoria Region of Sudan
The Equatoria Region is situated in the south of Sudan bordering Kenya, Uganda, Zaire and the Central African Republic.
An East Coast fever (ECF) outbreak was reported in 1950 by Hoogstraal in Kajo Kaji and Yei districts in the Equatoria Region (Hoogstraal, 1956).
Julla (1985) reported a typical outbreak of ECF at Palotaka in the Eastern Bank of the Equatoria Region in 1984, and in 1985 outbreaks of ECF occurred in Nimule and Juba townships.
www.fao.org /Wairdocs/ILRI/x5549E/x5549e07.htm   (593 words)

  
 Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever
The epidemic occurred in Western Equatoria Province of the Southern Sudan.
The affected areas were closed from the other Provinces, and the borders with the neighbouring countries were closed.
Movement inside the Southern Provinces was limited and communication between the Southern Region and the rest of the country restricted, except for special circumstances.
www.itg.be /ebola/ebola-58.htm   (658 words)

  
 150 Years of Doing Good in the Sudan - Roger Sandall - Quadrant Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The British parliament had abolished slavery in 1807, after decades of bitter debate, and it seemed downright scandalous that fifty years later, in the middle of the enlightened nineteenth century and during the reign of Queen Victoria herself, slave-trading was still going on in the Sudan.
The province of Equatoria might be in darkest Africa, and a very long way up the Nile, but something would have to be done.
At Marial Aguog, a village in Bahr el-Ghazal province, all 700 inhabitants were allegedly machine-gunned, while at the police post of Ulang in Upper Nile province, around 2000 people were killed, and their cattle seized and driven northwards.
www.quadrant.org.au /php/article_view.php?article_id=1173   (3364 words)

  
 Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Provinces of the Egyptian Sudan 1821 - 1889
24 Oct 1874 Dafur province of Egyptian Sudan.
16 Aug 1821 Kordofan province of Egyptian Sudan.
www.vdiest.nl /Africa/sudan.htm   (549 words)

  
 PhotoOikoumene Main html index
KARLUSSANZE, on the outskirts of SAURIMO, Lunda Sul Province, is a new settlement for 500 families, who were formerly refugees in Zaire.
The hospital in YAMBIO, a small town in Western Equatoria, has no trained doctor, but thanks to donations from abroad provides a greatly needed service to the population of the area.
Imam Hasan Ibahin in front of the Mosque in YAMBIO, in Western Equatoria, built in the early seventies.
www.photooikoumene.org /photo.nsf/MainIndex.html   (7770 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Southern Sudan, eastern Equatoria Province, Dongotono Hills southeast of Torit.
Northern Sudan, mainly at Dongola and surrounding villages in Northern Province.
Northern Province, northwards from Burgeg to the Egyptian border at Wadi Halfa.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Sudan   (4938 words)

  
 MSF Around the World
The continual upheaval of war was coupled in spring 2001 with drought - and the threat that many thousands of people would go hungry.
At sleeping sickness clinics in Ibba, in Western Equatoria province, and Kiri, in Eastern Equatoria, MSF treated over 2,000 patients and screened many thousands more over the last year.
In Lankien, MSF treats about 250 people for tuberculosis and is also undertaking a study of malaria resistance.
www.msf.org /content/page.cfm?articleid=92429773-6768-420F-AAADC8395DEF61B5   (666 words)

  
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Lado was Occupied on 26 May 1871 under the Sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), and was administered from E-gypt as the "Equatoria Province of Egypt".
During Ottoman Rule LADO had been administered by and through Egypt, and this continued as LADO was still the 'Equatoria Province of Egypt' under the Sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved by the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923.
During Ottoman Rule LADO was known as "Equatoria Province of Egypt" (1871), and the Land by the White Nile in the Nile-Congo Watershed Region bordered by Sudan to the north, the Central African Republic to the west, the Congo-Zaire to the south and Uganda to the east.
www.npi-news.dk /page37.htm   (13570 words)

  
 CNN - Thumbnail sketches of key players in the Zairian conflict - Apr. 13, 1997
He is from the Luba group Mulubakat in the mineral-rich Shaba province.
Mobutu, a member of the ethnic Ngbandi group in Equatoria province, was in Europe recovering from surgery when rebels began their offensive last fall.
Tshisekedi, a member of the Luba tribe from West Kasai province, broke with Mobutu in 1980 and formed the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.
edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/zaire.focus/whos.who/index.html   (323 words)

  
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16: The Sudanese army said yesterday that 150 rebels had surrendered to government troops in East Equatoria province in the south of the country.
Mr Kafelo, quoted by the official SUNA news agency, said his state "still receives returnees daily as a result of the peace agreement (of last April) which has met all demands of the southerners".
In the whole of Bahr el Ghazal, Eastern Equatoria, Upper Nile and the Nuba Mountains we were already preparing for the consequences of last year drought.
members.tripod.com /~SudanInfonet/Sib2098.txt   (2309 words)

  
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For about two weeks Equatoria Province became the killing fields for northerners, most of whom were civilians, including women and children.
When this proposal was blocked by the regional government, he conveniently created a new province and removed the oil fields altogether from southern administrative jurisdiction.
In a flagrant breach of the Addis Ababa Agreement, the southern region was re-divided into three new regions, and the central government began sponsoring, organising and arming tribal militias in the south.
members.fortunecity.com /sidahmed1/cwsudan.html   (9901 words)

  
 Disease Risk Analysis - Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Endemic areas for cutaneous leishmaniasis include Darfur, Kordofan, and other provinces of central Sudan, and north of Khartoum, along the Nile River.
Kala azar also reported from the Upper Blue Nile, Blue Nile, and Kassala Provinces, and Eastern Equatoria, Darfur, and Kordofan Districts.
Eastern Equatoria), leptospirosis, onchocerciasis (high prevalence along rivers in southwestern Sudan), relapsing fever (louse-borne and tick-borne), toxoplasmosis, tuberculosis (a major health problem), trachoma, typhoid fever, typhus (flea-borne and louse-borne), and helminthic infections (intestinal worms; very common).
www.travmed.com /maps/country.epl?c=Sudan   (658 words)

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