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Sudan's Third Revolution

Author: James Copnall

In: History Today, Vol 69, No 7, 2019

Copnall notes that the revolt against President Omar-al-Bash ir is not the first in Sudan's history, but it is the first since Africa's former largest country split in two, when South Sudan became independent in 2011. He summarizes the events leading to the fall of Bashir. He also discusses the long term tensions between the Arab Islamist northern elite, who dominated politics, and the great variety of African peoples and cultures, a conflict revealed by the bloody suppression of unrest in Darfur from 2003. 

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https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/sudan%E2%80%99s-third-revolution-0