Sudan Journey

By ghettoprincess

  • 19th Century

    19th Century
    Southern- Western region of Bahr al-Ghazal was one of the most prominent centers of slave trading on the african continent in the late 19th century.

  • Encouragement

    Traders encouraged hostile tribal groups to raid each other for treasure including ivory and slaves.

  • Increase

    A group of northern Muslims traders came in increasing numbers to southern SUdan, espically northern Bahr al-Ghazal, which becane an important source of slaves.

  • Conquered

    Sudan is conquered by Turkey and Egypt.

  • Muhamid Mi

    Muhammad Mi sent his third son Ismail at the head of 10,000 men across the desert and, by 1821, all of north and central Sudan was his. (http://www.sudan.net/history.php)

  • Laws

    Laws
    a series of laws, the closed disticts ordinances placed tight controls on acess to the south, the nuba mountains, Darfur and Southern Blu Nile, who's people after pacification- were now regarded as needing protection

  • Southern Policy

    Southern Policy
    Soutern Policy was abandoned after the Juba Confrence organized by the colonial government, at which Southern chiefs agreed with northern nationalist to persue a united Sudan.

  • Crash program

    Crash program
    A crash program of intergration followed

  • Slaves

    Slaves
    The Jallaba sent slaves overland to markets in the north and kept them in enclosures with thorny fence, calles zaribas, en route.

  • military

    military
    They used military force including the earliset aerial bombing against people who often regarded the british not aa their saviors from slavery but ass ne w wave of invaders

  • Parliment

    Parliment
    On December 19, 1955, the Parliament voted unanimously that the Sudan should become "a fully independent sovereign state" (http://www.sudan.net/history.php)

  • Missile Attack

    Missile Attack
    USA launches a missile attack on a chemical plant in Khartoum assumed to develop chemical weapons possibly in coorporation with the Al'Qaeeda terror network. Civilians are killed in the attack. The Sudanese government denies any link to terror and chemical weapons.

  • Darfur

    Darfur
    In Nairobi the government and rebels signs the last parts of the peace treaty for Southern Sudan. All fighting in Africa's longest civil war is expected to end in January 2005, but the peace agreement still doesn't cover the Darfur region. More than 1.5 million people lost their homes since the conflict in Darfur broke out early 2003. (http://www.sudan.net/history.php)

  • United Nations Security Controls

    United Nations Security Controls
    United Nations Security Council agrees to send 10,000 peace keeping soldiers to Southern Sudan. Again the descision does not cover the Darfur region.
    (http://www.sudan.net/history.php)

  • Hunger

    Hunger
    Hunger and famine in Sudan affects 3 million people.

  • War in Sudan

    War in Sudan
    President al-Bashir meets for the first time with SPLA leader John Garang. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has arranged the meeting. The war in Sudan is also having huge impact on the northen Uganda. (http://www.sudan.net/history.php)