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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#CC9900" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="047005a0dwnjzk.gif"> <div> <B>/poetry/omirossudan </B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="05896bc0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Timeline: Sudan </B></div> <div> <B>A chronology of key events: </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1881 - Revolt against the Turco-Egyptian administration. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1956 - Sudan becomes independent. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1958 - General Abbud leads military coup against the civilian government elected earlier in the year </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1962 - Civil war begins in the south, lead by the Anya Nya movement. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1964 - The "October Revolution" overthrows Abbud and a national government is established </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1969 - Ja'far Numayri leads the "May Revolution" military coup. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1971 - Sudanese Communist Party leaders executed after short-lived coup against Numayri </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">South gets autonomy </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1972 - Under the Addis Ababa peace agreement between the government and the Anya Nya the south becomes a self-governing region. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1978 - Oil discovered in Bentiu in southern Sudan. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1983 - Civil war breaks out again in the south involving government forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), lead by John Garang. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Islamic law imposed </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1983 - President Numayri declares the introduction of shari'ah (Islamic law). </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1985 - After widespread popular unrest Numayri is deposed by a group of officers and a Transitional Military Council is set up to rule the country. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1986 - Coalition government formed after general elections, with Sadiq al-Mahdi as prime minister. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1988 - Coalition partner the Democratic Unionist Party drafts cease-fire agreement with the SPLM, but it is not implemented. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1989 - National Salvation Revolution takes over in military coup. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1993 - Revolution Command Council dissolved after Umar al-Bashir is appointed president. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">US strike </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1995 - Egyptian President Mubarak accuses Sudan of being involved in attempt to assassinate him in Addis Ababa. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1998 - USA launches missile attack on a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, alleging that it was making materials for chemical weapons. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1998 - New constitution endorsed by over 96% of voters in referendum. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1999 - President Bashir dissolves the National Assembly and declares a state of emergency following a power struggle with parliamentary speaker, Hassan al-Turabi. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Advent of oil </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1999 - Sudan begins to export oil. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2000 5 September - The governor of the capital, Khartoum, issues a decree barring women from working in public places. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2000 26 September - President Bashir meets for the first time ever leaders of the opposition National Democratic Alliance in the Eritrean capital, Asmara. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2000 December - Police arrest six members of the National Democratic Alliance while meeting a US diplomat; Bashir re-elected for another five years in elections boycotted by the main opposition parties. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 February - Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi arrested a day after his party, the Popular National Congress, signed a memorandum of understanding with the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 March - UN's World Food Programme struggles to raise funds to feed 3 million facing famine. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 April - SPLA rebels threaten to attack international oil workers brought in by the government to help exploit vast new oil reserves. Government troops are accused of trying to drive civilians and rebels from the oilfields. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 April-May - Police continue arrests of members of Turabi's Popular National Congress party. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 May - The ICRC temporarily halts its flights into southern Sudan after an attack on one of its planes kills a co-pilot. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 25 May - Police use tear gas to disperse thousands of demonstrators at the funeral of Ali Ahmed El-Bashir, an active member of the opposition Islamist Popular National Congress party, who died the previous day from wounds sustained while being arrested. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 June - Failure of Nairobi peace talks attended by President al-Bashir and rebel leader John Garang. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 July - Government says it accepts a Libyan/Egyptian initiative to end the civil war. The plan includes a national reconciliation conference and reforms. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 July - Bambo oil field inaugurated in Unity State, producing 15,000 barrels per day. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 August - Thousands are left homeless as the Nile rises to highest level for twenty years. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 September - UN Security Council lifts largely symbolic sanctions against Sudan which involved a ban on diplomatic travel. They were imposed in 1996 over accusations that Sudan harboured suspects in an attempt on the life of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 October - US President Bush names Senator John Danforth as special envoy to try help end Sudanese conflict. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 November - US extends unilateral sanctions against Sudan for another year, citing its record on terrorism and rights violations. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 December - More than 14,550 slaves - mainly blacks from the south - are said freed over past six months, following campaigning by rights activists. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 December - SPLA claims 254 troops were killed over a few weeks during resistance to a government campaign to depopulate southern areas for oil exploitation. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b40066cc00.gif" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2001 December - SPLA accuses government of bombing the central Nuba mountains for three weeks in violation of a US-brokered truce aimed at allowing humanitarian aid into the region.</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="05700c00egerdp.jpg"> <bR> <div> <B>Welcome to the /poetry/omirossudan  web site.</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Me"><U><B>About Me</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Family"><U><B>My Family</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Pets"><U><B>My Pets</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Favorites"><U><B>My Favorites</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Hobbies"><U><B>My Hobbies</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favorite Links"><U><B>Favorite Links</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U><B>Contact Me</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>