The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.

It is the main hub for Sudan Airways, Sudan's main carrier.

In mid-1991, scheduled domestic air service was provided by Sudan Airways, a government-owned enterprise operated by the Sudan Airways Company.

In 1991 Sudan Airways had scheduled flights from Khartoum to twenty other domestic airports, although it did not always adhere to its schedules.

As compared with the previous year, in 1989 passenger traffic on Sudan Airways fell by 32 % to 363, 181 people, reducing the load factor to 34. 9 %.

At the end of 1979, Sudan Airways had entered into a pooling agreement with Britain's Tradewind Airways to furnish charter cargo service between that country and Khartoum under a subsidiary company, Sudan Air Cargo.

In 1987 the government proposed to privatize Sudan Airways, precipitating a heated controversy that ultimately led to a joint venture between the government and private interests.

Like the railroads and river transport operators, however, Sudan Airways suffered from a shortage of skilled personnel, overstaffing, and lacked hard currency and credit for spare parts and proper maintenance.

The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.

* July 8 – Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan ; the only survivor is a 2-year-old child.

* 1958 / 59: Sudan Airways and BWIA West Indies Airways were among Gatwick's first scheduled overseas airlines.

* Sudan Airways

In October 1993 CHS Aviation added two Cessna 208 Caravans and a Beechcraft B200 King Air to its general aviation fleet, to provide charter services to Southern Sudan for the SPLA.

* Sudan University of Science and Technology, one of the leading engineering and technology schools in Sudan, founded in 1932 as Khartoum Technical Institute and has been given its present name in 1991.

Map of transportation in Sudan ( 1991 ).

In 1991, the Library of Congress used the term ' Sudan People's Armed Forces ' to refer to the entire armed forces, but by the late 2000s ( decade ), the ' Sudanese Armed Forces ' term was most widespread.

* Library of Congress Country Studies, Sudan, 1991

Beginning with the imposition of strict sharia law in 1989, many of the country's most prominent musicians and poets, like poets Mahjoub Sharif, were imprisoned while others, like Mohammed el Amin and Mohammed Wardi ( Mohammed el amin returned to Sudan in 1991 and Mohammed Wardi returned to Sudan in 2003 ), fled to Cairo.

She is from the Dinka ethnic group in South Sudan, but in 1991 she and some family members fled to Britain to escape the civil war in Sudan.

Blue Nile ( ) called Central ( ) from 1991 until 1994, is one of the fifteen states of the Republic of Sudan.

Kassala ( Arabic: كسلا, called Ash Sharqiyah during 1991 — 1994 ) is one of the 15 wilayat ( states ) of Sudan.

On November 15, 1991 the event known as the " Bor Massacre " or Southwestern Dinka Massacre commenced in South Sudan.

In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan between Al-Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to cooperate in providing support – even if only training – for actions carried out primarily against Israel and the United States.

He is the author of a variety of scholarly and political books, including The Southern Question ( 1964 ); Speeches in Exile ( 1976 ); Questions on Mahadism ( 1979 ); Legitimate Penalties and Their Position in the Islamic Social System ( 1987 ); Democracy in Sudan: Will Return and Triumph ( 1990 ); Challenges of the Nineties ( 1991 ).

This would have distraught Iraq if Sudan hadn't supported them during the 1991 Gulf crisis.

In 1991, bin Laden moved to the Sudan, where he led operations in East Africa, including the 1993 assault on American troops at Mogadishu in Somalia.

While the Sudan Criminal Code of 1991 does not list slavery as a crime, Sudan has ratified the Slavery Convention, the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ).

Flogging for morals charges have been carried out since the codification of Islamic law in Sudan in 1991 without withdrawal from application.

During the Eritrean War of Independence ( 1961 – 1991 ), Tessenei was repeatedly bombed, and was subject to severe fighting because of its proximity to the borders of Sudan, from which the Eritrean insurgents receive weapons and supplies, but it was also the first to be liberated in 1988, having suffered extensive damage.

He was a hardline fundamentalist, and wrote the 1991 treatise " An Appeal to Support the Holy War in the Sudan ".

" William of Tyre recorded that the Ayyubid army consisted of soldiers, of which 8, 000 were elite forces and were black slave soldiers from the Sudan.

Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network ( very little of which consisted of all-weather roads ), a natural inland waterway — the Nile River and its tributaries — and a national airline that provided both international and domestic service.

In March 1954 British Troops in the Sudan consisted of one battalion stationed in Khartoum, reporting ultimately to the Governor-General.

They might range in size, but French Sudan ( modern Mali ) consisted of less than a dozen Cercles for most of its existence.

Modibo Keïta was elected constituent assembly president of the Mali Federation on July 20, 1960, which consisted of French Sudan, and Senegal.

Under the leadership of the British Middle East Command, British allied forces involved consisted not only of regular British troops, but also many recruits from British Commonwealth nations ( Sudan, British Somaliland, British East Africa, the Indian Empire, South Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, British West Africa, as well as the British Mandate of Palestine ).

In the early 1990s, the largest single category among the Muslim peoples of Sudan consisted of those speaking some form of Arabic.

SPLA / M consisted of a military wing, the Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ), and a political wing, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement ( SPLM ).

: The thirteen signatories were the science academies of Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, as well as the African Academy of Sciences.

He has spent the past thirteen years working as a Sudan researcher and analyst.

The Dervishes of the Mahdi ruled over Sudan for the next thirteen years as the British pulled out of the area.

Emergency has operated in thirteen war-torn countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and the Central African Republic.

At the age of twelve or thirteen ( as is customary among her people, her birthdate is unknown ), she was abducted and sold into slavery in Sudan following a slaving raid on her village.