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Sudan was a very active participant in the slave trade until early this century.
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In the First two Decades of the 20th centurythe British conducted a "pacification" campaign in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Moutains.
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the period from Muhammad Ali Pasha's invasion of Sudan in 1820 until the fall of Khartoum in 1885 to Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi.
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The leaders of the Cities sudan pursed a peace initiative for Sudan under the auspices of IGAD.
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They used military force including the earliest areial bombing againt peole who often regarded the british not as their saviors from slavery but as a new wave of invaders.
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Nimeiri responded to this unrest by declaring a state of emergency, purging the SSU, and arresting large numbers of dissidents. Nimeiri also replaced some cabinet members with military personnel loyal to him
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The north wanted Islam to spread throughout Sudan because the north was desert and sand. They were jealous of Dinka land so they stoledfrom all Sudan (Dinka villages got mad).
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As part of the Tslamiczation Campaign, now president Nimeiri puts Shari'a into pental code.
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Nimeriri was overthrown by a popular uprising in Khartoum provoked by a collasping enconomy
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There were unknown moves towards negdioting peace with the south
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They didn't sign the DOP after a major battlefield losses to Sudan SPLM/A
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The final coprehensive peace agreement, the context of an extraordinary session of the United Nations Security Council in Nairobi, Kenya.
