Post Colonial Civil War

From Global Security

A Site about British Imperial Moves in Sudan

First Sudanese Civil War

Second Sudanese Civil War

The British ran the Sudan from their victory at Omdurman in 1898 until 1956. It was run jointly with Egypt and known as the Anglo Egyptian Sudan.
The British continued to keep the Southern Sudan separate. The North had it's Arab and Islamic tradition and was more literate. In the South, the Dinka started to receive educations from missionaries.

The British unwittingly set the stage for this to be two separate regions. Well, they were in earlier centuries, but now even more so. The moment independence happened, the Southerners felt they would never get a fair shake, so they launched a Civil War. The peace was only signed in 1972, sixteen years later.

The Civil War began anew because the government in Khartoum wanted to impose Sharia on the entire nation. (See other posts on Sharia and can the Sudan be one nation).