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  Nimeiri then initiated with the southern rebels and signed an agreement in Addis Ababa in 1972 that granted a measure of the south.
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  it had a big effect on the peace treaty.
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  In September 1983, as part of an Islamicization campaign, President Nimeiri announced that traditional
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  The second Sudan civil war effectively began in January 1983
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  while out of the country, Nimeiri was overthrown by a popular uprising in Khartoum
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  Elections were held and a civilian government took over after the April 1986 elections.
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  leaders of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya pursued a peace treaty for the Sudan.
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  The Government did not sign the DOP after major battlefield losses to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement.