The First Sudanese Civil War : Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972

This book is a comprehensive investigation, discussion, and analysis of the origins and development of the first civil war in the Sudan, which occurred between 1955 and 1972. It was the culmination of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, political, and economic problems that had faced the Sudan since the Turco-Egyptian conquest of the country in 1821. The hostilities between the Northern and Southern regions of the Sudan also involved foreign powers that had their own geopolitical interests in the country. The first Sudanese civil war is a classic example of intra-regional and inter-regional conflicts in Africa in the twentieth century. This book is a comprehensive investigation, discussion, and analysis of the origins and development of the first civil war in the Sudan, which occurred between 1955 and1972. It was the culmination of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, political, and economic problems that had faced the Sudan since the Turco-Egyptian conquest of the country in 1821. The hostilities between the Northern and Southern regions of the Sudan also involved foreign powers that had their own geopolitical interests in the country. The first Sudanese civil war is a classic example of intra-regional and inter-regional conflicts in Africa in the 20th century. Ethnicity and race in modern Sudan The Torit Mutiny of 1955 : its causes and failure Legacy of the failed mutiny : government repression and rise of the resistance movement Government counterinsurgency methods, 1955-72 General Abboud's response : repression, Islamization, and Arabization, 1958-64 Emergence of Southern Sudanese political movements, 1960-72 Reorganization and consolidation of the guerrilla movement, 1963-71 External political and military involvement in Sudan's civil war, 1960-72 The road to peace, 1969-72.