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The south-western region of Bahr-al-Ghazal was one of the most prominent center of slave trading on the African contient/
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Led by Ali's son Hussein Sudan is conquered by Egypt.and Turkey
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The religious leader Sudanese "Mahdi" began to go against control from Egypt in sudan.
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a religioius leader estabished an Islamic state in Sudan
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Sudan is under joint British-Egyptian rule.
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in the 1920s a series of laws, the closed Districts Ordiances placed tigh controls on access to the south, the Nuba Mountains, Darfur and Southern Blue Nile, whose peoples- after "pacification"- were now regarded as needing "protection"
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-Egyptian and British still controlled Sudan
- the British launched the campaign to liberate neighboring Ethiopia from Sudanese territory.
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in 1947 Southern Policy was abandoned after the Juba Conference organized by the colonial governent, at which southern chiefs agreed with nothern nationalists to pursue a united Sudan.
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Revolt and start of the civil war First Civil War Between South and North starts
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Sudan becomes independent under a short term constitution.
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General Abboud leads the first military coup against the civilian government.
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Civil war breaks out in the predominately Christian region of the South. Civil war starts in the south.
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Nimeirir got put in power thanks to the military coup
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Gaafar Mohamed El-Nimeiri leads the “May Revolution” military coup and becomes President.
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A peace agreement was signed and Sudan is in peace for about 10 years
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Oil reserved are found in Bentiu (South Sudan). IT was discovered by a US company.
