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  Politics of Sudan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A government of national unity was sworn in on 22 September, with 16 members from the National Congress, nine from the SPLM and two from the northern opposition National Democratic Alliance, which left the seats vacant in protest over how the posts were allocated.
The country is currently in an interim (transitional) period following the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on 9 January 2005 that officially ended the civil war between the Sudanese Government (based in Khartoum) and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) rebel group.
An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Sudan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Sudan   (1033 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egypt
An alabaster vase bearing the names of the last has been found under a wall of the palace of Cnossis in Crete, and a lion in Bagdad Their capital seems to have been Avaris on the north-eastern border of the Delta.
At an early date the crude primitive fetishism was somewhat mitigated, when the deities were supposed to reside in statues combining human figures with animal heads.
An important variant of this Re-Osiris tradition is to be found in two books due to the Theban Ammon-Re School of theology, the "Book of what there is in the Duat" (Hades) and the "Book of the Gates".
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05329b.htm   (18362 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Sudan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Independence was achieved in 1956, but the Arab-led Khartoum government reneged on promises to southerners to create a federal system, which led to a mutiny by southern army officers that sparked 17 years of civil war from 1955 to 1972.
It is dominated by the River Nile and its tributaries.
With an area of 2,505,810 km², it is the largest country in the continent.
www.ipedia.com /sudan.html   (751 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He led a nationalist revolt against Egyptian rule culminating in the fall of Khartoum in 1885, in which the British General Gordon was killed, the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's poem Fuzzy Wuzzy, a tribe in the region of Port Sudan.
Southern Sudan is an autonomous region intermediate between the states and the national government.
There is also an insurgency in the east led by the Eastern Front.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Sudan   (3548 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Sudan
Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced.
The ruling regime is a mixture of military elite and an Islamist party that came to power in a 1989 coup.
Some northern opposition parties have made common cause with the southern rebels and entered the war as a part of an anti-government alliance.
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/su.html   (1300 words)

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