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	Rift Valley Institute
		Dan Connell "the Politics of Slaughter in Sudan" Middle East Report
		Atta L. Battahani "Aids and Politics in Sudan" (pdf)
		"Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) and archaeological excavation in Sudan" by Ahmed A.A.Adeel
	www.riftvalley.net /inside/slinks.htm (1240 words)

	SOL Politics : Sudan Online Politcs Section
		Sudan’s Kirr calls on southerners to back peace, stability First Vice-President, President of Southern Sudan Lt Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit has stressed the need to end the south-south conflict.
		A year after the signing of a peace agreement that ended the 21-year civil war which ravaged southern Sudan, its fledgling government looks to donor support as a means of achieving real peace on the ground.
		Sudan and Iran have agreed to hold meetings of their Joint Ministerial Committee in its 9th session in the Iranian Capital of Tehran mid next July.
	www.sol-sd.com /politics.htm (908 words)

	SudanTribune topics - Latest articles on Politics...
		The Foreign Minister, Lam Akol Ajaween confirmed on yesterday that the President al-Bashir has approved the SPLM’s nomination of sixteen Southern Sudanese ambassadors as stipulated in the power sharing portfolios of (...)
		Sudan’s identity and the notion of broken promises
		April 5, 2006 (RUMBEK) — In its inaugural meeting in Rumbek, the Interim Political Bureau (IPB) of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) discussed the conflict in Darfur and the situation in Eastern Sudan and their internal and external ramifications.
	www.sudantribune.com /mot.php3?id_mot=5 (964 words)

	Religion and Politics in Sudan: Religion and Peacemaking: U.S. Institute of Peace
		In political terms, this has led to calls for a new, secular and enlightened Sudan in which the state is neutral on religion, or barring that, to calls for a separate southern Sudan.
		Regionally, the Government of Sudan is pursuing an aggressive strategy to destabilize its neighbors to the north and in the Horn of Africa.
		In northern Sudan, religion is a primary motivating factor in the government's conflictual relations with the southern opposition forces.
	www.usip.org /religionpeace/rehr/sudanconf/almquist.html (2950 words)

	Landmines, poverty and politics make Sudan 'biggest' challenge for UN
		"There is nothing in southern Sudan that is really in place in order to facilitate the process of implementation with the exception of the agreement itself and the political will of the parties to implement it," a civilian UN expert said.
		Few previous UN peacekeeping exercises have faced anything even close to the situation in southern Sudan, where multi-national troops are to be deployed in six sectors around the region, officials said.
		To carry out its mandate to oversee implementation of the landmark January peace deal that ended Sudan's 21-year north-south civil war, the UN will assemble some 80 aircraft to haul troops and supplies throughout the deeply impoverished region.
	www.theallineed.com /news/0508/113684.htm (783 words)

	ABC News: Southern Sudan Faces Formidable Challenges
		Ending abject poverty troubling the majority of the people in southern Sudan is one of the challenges facing the regional ruler and country's new First Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit, who was sworn into office Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 under a peace deal intended to end a 21-year civil in southern Sudan.
		But now a southerner has taken his place in the leadership of a unity government pledged to move Sudan toward lasting peace.
		Some were created by the ravages of war, some by Sudan's history of divisive politics, some by Garang's autocratic legacy.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1031266 (507 words)

	Oil and Politics in The Sudan
		In 1999, a pipeline opened that carried oil from southern Sudan to the red sea and by 2001 the northern government was receiving $800 million dollars annually in oil revenues.
		The Presbyterian Church in Sudan has filed a suit against Talisman, claiming that the company in engaged in a joint strategy with the government to liquidate the Christian and Animist civilian populations in areas near the oil pipeline or where the Talisman seeks to drill.
		Sudan's oil resources are estimated at between 800 million and 4 billion barrels.
	www.albany.edu /~jw3277/isp523fit/oil.html (370 words)

	Sudan-Goverment & Politics
		The Sudan Foundation An excellent resource based in the UK, which aims to further relations between the UK and Sudan, and hosts exceptional material from a wide variety of sources including republished articles from the Southern Sudan Bulletin.
		Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan in Washington, DC
		Sudan: The Authentic Portrait By Ambassador Mahdi Ibrahim Mohamed.
	www.arabinfoseek.com /sudan-goverment_&_politics.htm (176 words)

	Sudan - Politics in Sudan
		The United States is also ramming Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) designed to teach the southern Sudanese learn good governance (see IADP).
		They have also extended the Sudan Transitional Assistance for $6 million and will add more to the $100 million they provide in food supplies.
		Their new constitution lifts a 10 year ban on party politics even welcoming former dictator Gaafar Numeiri after 14 years abroad.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/sudan/dthing4.htm (135 words)

	Oil and Politics in The Sudan
		Other manifestations of the close relationship between the government and the oil companies include the displacement of around 50,000 civilians from the oilfields of southern Sudan in the first six months of 2001.
		In 1999, a pipeline opened that carried oil from southern Sudan to the red sea and by 2001 the northern government was receiving $800 million dollars annually in oil revenues.
		Sudan's oil resources are estimated at between 800 million and 4 billion barrels.
	www.albany.edu /~jw3277/isp523fit/oil.html (135 words)

	allAfrica.com: Kenya: Politics-Kenya: A Fragile Peace in the Desert
		The Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, militias in southern Sudan, Oromo Liberation Front guerillas in southern Ethiopia and Somali warlords who consider East Africa's deserts their personal fiefdoms, provide a constant supply of weapons to feuding tribes.
		In Mandera district, which borders Somalia, the Garre and Murule clans are fighting, and in the most recent flare-up, 23 Garre villagers - mostly women and children - were massacred in a hail of AK-47 gunfire as they slept in their huts.
		Isiolo District, on the edge of the vast Kaisut Desert in Kenya, is their destination, where nomads from the Borana, Somali, Turkana, Samburu and Meru ethnic groups share limited grazing and water.
	allafrica.com /stories/200504070003.html (1152 words)

	Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egypt borders on Libya on the west, on Sudan on the south and on Israel on the northeast.
		Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most stunning ancient monuments, including the Giza Pyramids, the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings; the southern city of Luxor contains a particularly large number of ancient artifacts.
		The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic:مصر, romanized Misr, in Egyptian Arabic Másr), is a republic in North Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egypt (3192 words)

	Africa
		The Sanhaja berber nomads settled in the deserts south of the Atlas mountains around 1200BC, while the farming Masmouda lived to the north and west and in the Atlas mountains in present day Morocco, and the tough horse-riding Zenata nomads occupied the southern desert areas.
		One Berber official siezed power in Egypt in 950BC and ruled as pharoah Shishink I. His successors, the twentysecond and twentythird Egyptian dynasties of 945-730BC are believed to be of Berber descent as well.
		Triplotania was assigned to Rome's ally, the Berber king of Numidia (1).
	www.geocities.com /justanaveragedude/world/africa.html (3192 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Sudan
		The war is rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese.
		Sudan has turned around a struggling economy with sound economic policies and infrastructure investments, but it still faces formidable economic problems, starting from its low level of per capita output.
		In 1999, Sudan began exporting crude oil and in the last quarter of 1999 recorded its first trade surplus, which, along with monetary policy, has stabilized the exchange rate.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html (1339 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly Region Free to foment trouble?
		They warn that Al-Turabi was the chief architect of the radical Islamisation and Arabisation campaigns that were aimed at politically marginalising the southern Sudanese.
		Both the PNC and the ruling NC are offshoots of the now defunct National Islamic Front (NIF) which dominated Sudanese politics in the 1990s.
		The PNC broke away from Sudan's ruling National Congress in 1999 after a fallout between Al- Beshir and his one-time political ally Al-Turabi, former speaker of the Sudanese Parliament.
	www.mafhoum.com /press6/165S27.htm (710 words)

	Sudan THE TRANSITIONAL MILITARY COUNCIL - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		However, policy disagreements over the sharia, the southern civil war, and the country's future direction contributed to the confusion that characterized Sudan's national politics.
		In March 1986, the Sudanese government and the SPLM produced the Koka Dam Declaration, which called for a Sudan "free from racism, tribalism, sectarianism and all causes of discrimination and disparity." The declaration also demanded the repeal of the sharia and the opening of a constitutional conference.
		The combination of the south's redivision, the introduction throughout the country of the sharia, the renewed civil war, and growing economic problems eventually contributed to Nimeiri's downfall.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/sudan/sudan_history_the_transitional_military_council.html (971 words)

	Sudan
		When called upon we may fly out to Southern Sudan and will try to tackle some of the immediate and long term problems.
		If you want to donate financially towards some of the humanitarian programs you can donate to us noting that it is for Sudan and we will distribute it to rebuilding groups on the ground.
		History of Sudan from 300 B.C. Information from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
	www.architectureforhumanity.org /programs/Sudan (478 words)

	New Internationalist: History of Sudan
		The conflict in Sudan is often portrayed as being between the prosperous Arab North and the impoverished and neglected Christian South.
		Sudan is a country of great variety; many different ethnic groups exist side by side and alliances are formed for many different reasons.
		The UN estimates the death toll in southern Sudan to have reached 1.3 million.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_283/ai_30037070 (584 words)

	Sudan on the Internet
		History of Nubia the area partly in southern Egypt and partly in northern Sudan.
		Sudan Archaeological Society in Berlin/ Die Sudan-archaologische Gesellschaft zu Berlin E.V. Based at Humboldt-Universitat, describes their projects, has tips for travelers to the Sudan, table of contents of its bulletin, photographs of wall paintings, temples, many links to other Sudan archaeology web sites, and an annotated bibliography of publications on the Sudan.
		Information on the history, society, economy, politics, national security of each country.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/sudan.html (8049 words)

	Mombasa
		Kenya Southern Sudan Liaison Office (KESSULO) will be charged w...
		A Nation in Grief : the Politics of Death And Condolences
		Kenya’s tea prices were mixed at the weekly auction, with the cost of some grades dipping because of a slight drop in quality, dealers said on Tuesday....
	www.mombasa.com (506 words)

	History and Politics (from Saudi Arabia) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Saudi Arabia is separated from Egypt, The Sudan, and Eritrea by the Red Sea to the west; from Iran by the Persian Gulf to the east; and from Bahrain by the Gulf of Bahrain, also to the east.
		While the war continued in Korea, the battlefield of politics was heating up here in the states during this pivotal election year.
		Another major civilization evolved in southern Arabia, or Arabia Felix, where a confederation of states…
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207698?tocId=207698&ct=null (949 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Sudan / Bibliography
		Mills, L.R. Population and Manpower in the Southern Sudan.
		Barbour, K.M. The Republic of the Sudan: A Regional Geography.
		Population of the Sudan: A Joint Project on Mapping and Analysing the 1983 Population Census Data.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/sudan/sd_bibl.html (3128 words)

	Red Sea Secrets
		The southern Red Sea is bordered by Yemen and Eritrea, the mid-section by Sudan and Saudi Arabia, and the north by Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
		The politics and bureaucracy of the countries abutting the Red Sea can be confusing.
		Alas, the Red Sea is often subject to strong winds associated with the extreme air temperature changes of the deserts that surround it.
	www.divernet.com /travel/rsea1198.htm (3128 words)

	Violation of human rights in Sudan - Deccan Herald
		Over the past 20 years Sudan was plagued by civil war between the northern region primarily inhabited by the Arabs of Islamic faith and the southern region populated by the black population that is predominantly Christian.
		Hence Sudan is likely to be at the centre of politics related to energy security, in the coming decades.
		Similarly, the human rights violations are occurring due to excesses committed by all the parties to the conflict and it would be appropriate for India to condemn, unequivocally, violation of international humanitarian law in Sudan.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/aug102004/edst.asp (803 words)

	Reuters AlertNet - Democratic Republic of Congo
		Borders Central African Republic in the north, Sudan in the northeast, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Lake Tanganyika in the east.
		Violence in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga Province has been displacing thousands of civilians, according to local media and two international NGOs.
		SOUTHERN AFRICA: IRIN-SA Weekly Roundup 241 for 23-29 July 2005
	www.alertnet.org /thefacts/countryprofiles/214383.htm (357 words)

	NewsHour Online: Africa
		January 8, 2004 -- Family Planning Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the politics and practice of family planning in the southern African nation of Zambia.
		October 21, 2004 -- Crisis in Sudan Margaret Warner discusses the humanitarian crisis in Darfur with John Prendergast, former director of African affairs on the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, and Ali Ali-Dinar, who is the outreach director of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
		March 31, 1999 -- Crisis in Sudan A civil war, famine and a slave trade have torn apart the African nation of Sudan.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/africa.html (357 words)

	ecoi.net - Focus countries » Sudan » Politics & law (Popular National Congress (PNC))
		Anticipating resolution of the conflict and opening up of the political system, Turabi is appealing to the majority African population.34 For example, despite his house arrest, Turabi has been writing about African liberation, emphasising his own African heritage, expressing disdain for Arabism, and comparing southern Sudanese as freedom fighters with blacks in South Africa.
		ecoi.net - Focus countries » Sudan » Politics & law (Popular National Congress (PNC))
		Home » Focus countries » Sudan » Politics & law (Popular National Congress (PNC))
	www.ecoi.net /doc/en/SD/content/2/4251-6711 (357 words)

	SudanTribune article : The ascendancy of Mr Salva Kiir : Fate in Political Succession
		Aug 22, 2005 (Nairobi) — The ascendancy of Mr Salva Kiir Mayardit to power in Sudan should be another grim reminder to ambitious politicians in Kenya and elsewhere about how the gods of fate distribute the spoils in succession and power politics.
		Salva Kiir Mayardit, who was sworn in recently as the First Vice-President of Sudan, succeeding Dr John Garang de Mabior, who died in a helicopter crash on July 30 while returning from an official visit to Uganda.
		Kenya calls international community to help southern Sudan
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=11197 (1085 words)

	Uganda since 1979 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF) launched "Operation Iron Fist" against LRA rebels in northern Uganda in 2002 and conducted operations against LRA sanctuaries in southern Sudan with the permission of the Sudanese Government.
		Uganda and Sudan have resumed diplomatic relations and exchanged Ambassadors; however, Uganda continues to accuse Sudan of supporting the LRA.
		Although they were survivors of Amin's genocidal purges of northeast Uganda, in the 1980s they were armed and in uniform, conducting similar actions against Bantu-speaking Ugandans in the south, with whom they appeared to feel no empathy or even pity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uganda_since_1979 (1085 words)

	Africa -
		Sudan and Mauritania are divided between a mostly Arabized north and a native African south (although the "Arabs" of Sudan clearly have a predominantly native African ancestry themselves).
		Countries where major human rights violations have been reported in recent times include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, and Côte d'Ivoire.
		Colonialism had a destabilizing effect on what had been a number of ethnic groups that is still being felt in African politics.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/African (5047 words)

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