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Sudan is under joint British-Egyptian rule.
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the United Kingdom and Egypt concluded an agreement providing for Sudanese self-government and self-determination
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the Arab-led Khartoum government reneged on promises to southerners to create a federal system, which led to a mutiny by southern army officers that launched 17 years of civil war
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Sudan gains independance from Britain in 1956
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General Abboud leads military coup against the civilian government elected earlier in the year
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General Ibrahim Abboud seized power and pursued a policy of Arabization and Islamization in the south that strengthened southern opposition
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Civil war begins in the south, led by the Anya Nya movement.
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General Abboud was overthrown in 1964 and a civilian caretaker government assumed control.
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n May 1969, a group of communist and socialist officers led by Colonel Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiri, seized power
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Oil discovered in Bentiu in southern Sudan.
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Southern soldiers mutined rather than follow orders transfering them to the North.
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The SPLA was formed in 1983 when Lieutenant Colonel John Garang of the SPAF was sent to quell a mutiny in Bor of 500 southern troops who were resisting orders to be rotated to the north.
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September 1983, as part of an Islamicization campaign, President Nimeiri announced that traditional Islamic punishments drawn from Shari’a
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Nimeiri was overthrown by a popular uprising in Khartoum provoked by a collapsing economy, the war in the south, and political repression.
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Sudan begins to export oil.
