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there was a revolt against the leadership foreshadowed that disputes what still exists today.
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He proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or the "expected one" and began a rligous crusade to unify tribes in Sudan. His followers are considered the single largest political group, called the Umma Party. They are still led by a descendant of Mahdi.
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They toke advantage of the dissatisfaction resulting from a bad administration and much explotation
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Mahdi died shortly after the revolt. His state soon got over run by the Anglo-Egyptian forse led by Lord Kitchener
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In the 1920s a series of laws, the Closed Districts Ordinances palced tight controls on access to the south.
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In 1947 Southern Policy was abandoned after the Juba Confrence orginazed by the colonial goverment, at which Southern chiefs agreed with northern nationalists to pursue a united sudan.
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The United Kingdom and Egypt created an aggreement that provided Sudan with self goverment and self determination.It began with the inauguration of parliment in 1954. They finally acived independance on January 1, 1956.
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In 1953 at the Cairo Confrence an self-rule, the grounds that they had "No party or orgainization".
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Sudan has been at war for more than three quarters of its existence. This conflict is rooted in the cultural and religious diffrences that characterize the country. Northerners who have traditionally controlled the country have the opposition of non-Muslims, southerners, and marginalized peoples in the west and east.
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The British also sent an expeditionary force under Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Graham to Suakin in March 1885. It became known as the Suakin Expedition. Although it was successful in the two actions it fought, it failed to change the military situation and was withdrawn.These events temporarily ended British and Egyptian involvement in Sudan, which passed completely under the control of the Mahdists.
