Word: nya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countryside carpeted in a lush green. The valley of the rain-swollen Upper Nile is alive with gazelles, dik-dik and brightly plumaged birds, and the elephant grass is five feet high. Over the past several years, that luxuriant growth often concealed guerrilla fighters of the dread Any a Nya (Scorpion) independence movement, but now there are signs that one of the most long-lived conflicts in Africa has begun to ebb. Last week, TIME Correspondent William Smith visited the Sudan and filed a report on a hopeful lull in the bitter, 14-year-old struggle that...
Instead, in the bloodiest single period of the war, Anya Nya rebels attacked government forces, brutally mutilating an Arab sergeant at Juba in the process. The Arab soldiers went berserk, killing hundreds of blacks and burning countless huts...
...reopened. Journalists, long barred from the south, are now welcome. "Go anywhere you like," an official urged, "and stay as long as you wish. We want you to learn the truth." According to Brigadier General Mohamed Abdul Gadir, head of the Southern Command since the May coup, the Anya Nya are short of arms and ammunition...
Scholar & Snake. The election made good the promise of Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi, 31, who has called for a national reconciliation with the deceptively simple slogan: "Pacification with persuasion." A mild Oxford scholar, Sadik last July replaced Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, who chose to discourage the rebellious Anya Nya (named for the poison of the black Mamba snake) with retaliatory raids on southern villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi...
...with bags of red pepper around their eyes, or burning their huts. Some 100,000 refugees have crossed the border into Uganda, and more may move soon. Prime Minister Mahgoub says his government is still committed to "a peaceful solution within the framework of a unified Sudan"; Any a Nya leaders in Kampala interpret this to mean a new government offensive as soon as the rainy season ends...