Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent sabotage. Prime Minister Mahgoub flew back from a quick trip to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya with the news that all three nations had agreed to give no aid to the rebels. Even so, pressures were growing in the black nations to support their fellow blacks against the Arab north, and the Nairobi Daily Nation warned that the war could grow into "another Viet Nam." "Is it too late for peace in the Sudan?" asked the Tanzania Standard. "It will be tragic for Africa...
Married. Hoda Nasser, 21, eldest daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser; and Hattem Sadek, 22, sportsman son of former Agriculture Under Secretary Ali Sadek, a University of Cairo economics graduate; at Nasser's suburban Heliopolis home...
Unimpressed. Last month, when the Sudan got its first democratic government since a 1958 army coup, Arab hopes ran high that the blacks might finally listen to reason. The new regime promised them equal rights, religious freedom and a minority in the Cabinet. The south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very...
Instead of hurling themselves at the army, the Juba rebels ambushed a lone sergeant out for an evening stroll, sawed off the top of his head, emasculated him, and stuck the amputated part in his mouth. The Arab garrison went berserk. Its troops exploded into the street, firing wildly at everything that moved. They cordoned off the black districts along the Nile, sent four-man assassination parties down every street, setting fire to the thatched native huts and shooting down their occupants as they emerged. Many residents, caught between the advancing vengeance squads and the army cordon, threw themselves...
Such appeals have a familiar ring to African nationalists. It is unlikely, however, that they will bring the Sudanese rebels much support. Although most black African leaders distrust the Arabs, few seem willing to risk splitting the continent into two hostile camps. A successful secession movement would set a dangerous precedent for such ethnic friction points as Nigeria and Chad, both of which are already hard put to keep peace between their Arab and Negro populations...