Word: khartoum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the clash between the two worlds has been bloodiest. Africa's largest country in terms of area, the Sudan is dominated by the 9,000,000 Arabs of the north; the south's 4,000,000 blacks have long felt ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black soldiers mutinied in Torit, slaughtering 78 Arab officers. The terror had begun. Villages were harassed by the army and by rebels in turn; thousands of tribesmen were killed. Refugees flocked south into Uganda and the Congo; today, about...
Massacre at Juba. In 1965, Khartoum's leaders began talks with black leaders, but no agreement was reached...
...Arabs leave the south," said one leader. "We have nothing more to lose, so we will fight on to the end." Said another: "I know the West believes peace will come when there is a good leader in Northern Sudan. But this is not true." Nobody knows, because Khartoum has not had a truly effective leader since independence. Whether Nimeri fits that description remains to be seen. Right now, his government is lavishing attention on the Communist governments of Eastern Europe in an effort to establish its socialist credentials; last month six U.S. diplomats were expelled for trying to "sabotage...
Working against time, the Poles painstakingly detached 120 frescoes and reaf-fixed them to thin layers of plastic reinforced by plywood boards. Sixty of the detached frescoes were shipped upstream to the Sudanese archaeological museum at Khartoum, the remainder to Warsaw...
Died. Ismail Azhari, 69, former President of the Sudan; of a heart attack; in Khartoum. A veteran of British colonial jails, Azhari was elected Prime Minister in 1954 following the pullout of British troops, and guided the Sudan to full independence in 1956. Toppled from power six months later, he bided his time until 1964, when he helped overthrow the country's military dictatorship and a short time later emerged as the Sudan's first President only to be overthrown himself in May of this year. "In a backward country, prison is the politician's university...