The semiarid sahelian zone, or Sahel, forms a belt about wide that runs from Lac and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures eastward through Guéra, Ouaddaï, and northern Salamat prefectures to the Sudanese frontier.

The Sudano-Sahelian architecture ( also Sudanese and the French style-Soudanais ) covers an umbrella of similar architectural styles common to the Islamized peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland ( geographical ) regions of West Africa, south of ( and within ) the Sahara, but above fertile forest regions of the coast.

Following the withdrawal of Senegal from the federation in August 1960, the former Sudanese Republic became the Republic of Mali on 22 September 1960, with Modibo Keïta as president.

Following the Darfur Peace Agreement, the office of senior Presidential advisor was allocated to Minni Minnawi, a Zaghawa of the Sudanese Liberation Army ( SLA ), and this thus became the fourth highest constitutional post.

In 1972 the Sudanese government became more pro-Western, and made plans to export food and cash crops.

This became the nucleus of the modern Sudanese Army.

Qaddafi then strongly supported Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al Mahdi, who became prime minister on May 6, 1986.

Official diplomatic relations commenced on 9 July 2011, the day of South Sudan independence when Sudan became the first state to recognise South Sudanese independence.

Following the civil war the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement ( SPLM ) became the dominant political power in the south, and is the main coalition partner with the ruling National Congress Party ( NCP ) in the GNU.

On July 15, 2004, Rush became the second sitting member of Congress, following Charles Rangel and preceding Joe Hoeffel, to be arrested for trespassing while protesting the genocide in Darfur and other violations of human rights in Sudan in front of the Sudanese Embassy.

* 2012: Amel Manyon became the first South Sudanese woman to be ordained in the Uniting Church in Australia.

In the spring of 1979, after the Arab League had extended the mandate of the Arab Deterrent Force, the Sudanese, the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates troops departed Lebanon, the Libyan troops were essentially abandoned and had to find their own way home ( if at all ), and the ADF thereby became a purely Syrian force ( which did include the Palestinian Liberation Army ( PLA )).

This was the beginning of what quickly became known as the Second Sudanese Civil War.

It soon became clear that the Sudanese people did not want to be tied closely to Egypt, and in his greatest act of statesmanship al-Azhari dramatically reversed the position which he had long advocated and, with the support of the principal political leaders, declared the Sudan independent on January 1, 1956.

After graduating, he returned to Sudan and became a member of the Islamic Charter Front, an offshoot of the Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

" Al-Turabi became a leader of the Sudanese Socialist Union, and was promoted to Justice Minister in 1979.

In 1960 the Sudanese Republic became the independent country of Mali.

This second Sudanese pound became the only legal tender as of July 1, 2007.

In its latest phase, lasting from about 1700 – 1500 BCE, it absorbed the Sudanese kingdom of Sai and became a sizable, populous empire rivaling Egypt.

In what is today Sudan, Sudanese Arabic became the main vernacular of the Kingdom of Sennar, with Nobiin becoming a minority tongue.

After having collaborated with the Arab nationalist Sudanese government for years, the Ba ' ath Party broke of relations and became an opposition party in 1990.

They had no choice except to settle their status with the British to stay and live with their families in the western part of Gedaref, which later became the basis of the Mayoral Bakr, whose influence extends to the frontier town of Gallabat in the Sudanese Ethiopian border.

After the war the town became also more attractive for agricultural investment to many segments of Sudanese tribes, especially after the establishment of the Mechanized Farming Corporation in 1968.

In 1888 he became a regimental captain in the British service, but continued in Egyptian service, concentrating on training Sudanese troops.

Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur () ( also Sebehr Rahma, Rahama Zobeir ) was a Sudanese Arab slave trader in the late 19th-century, he later became a pasha and Sudanese governor.

Students from other Arab and African countries were also trained at the Military College, and in 1982 sixty Ugandans were graduated as part of a Sudanese contribution to rebuilding the Ugandan army after Amin's removal from power.

* 2006 – In December the Tamworth Regional Council voted 6 to 3 against an offer from the Federal Government to take part in a one-year trial rural refugee resettlement programme ; the majority of these refugees would be Sudanese escaping civil war in their homeland.

Northern Sudan has a tradition of lyrical music that utilizes oblique metaphors, and has historically been used as part of the Sudanese independence movement and in other political movements.

Breads include the Arabian khubz, and kisra, an omelette-like pancake which is part of the Sudanese dinner.

* Nicholas D. Kristof from the New York Times follows a young Sudanese boy with a Guinea Worm parasite infection who is quarantined for treatment as part of the Carter programme

His frequent close relationships with Sudanese governments resulted in the famous association against him in the 1986 votes, where all political parties decided to withdraw their nominees and keep only one nominee against al-Turabi, which led to the loss of al-Turabi being part of the only democratic government in Sudan during the last four decades.

PetroChina has also come under scrutiny from international organizations for its part in trading with the Sudanese government who continues the ongoing war in Darfur.

At the behest of Napoleon III in 1863, Sa ' id dispatched part of a Sudanese battalion to Mexico to help put down a rebellion there.

The First Sudanese Civil War ( also known as the Anyanya rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of the rebels ) was a conflict from 1955 to 1972 between the northern part of Sudan and the southern Sudan region that demanded representation and more regional autonomy.

A large part of the Sudanese railway network is currently in disrepair due to political turmoil.

May 30, 2007, the US Department of State named as part of economic sanctions a list of Sudanese firms, including Azza Air Transport Company, for " transferring small arms, ammunition and artillery to Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia in Darfur.

To utilize the extra generation capacity, the Sudanese power grid will be upgraded and extended as part of the project.

As part of this protest, the Presbyterian Church of Sudan sued the company in an American court for genocide, stating that Talisman had helped Sudanese officials " bomb churches, kill church leaders and attack villages in an effort to clear the way for oil exploration.

As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process that was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of IGAD and that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2001 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted more than 40 years and claimed over 2 million lives.

Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the independent Republic of Mali.

Senegal withdrew from the federation in August 1960, which allowed the Sudanese Republic to become the independent Republic of Mali on 22 September 1960.

This is significant for the Sudanese, for it was the first time it had an independent army that was not governed by Britain or Egypt.

During 1969 the Sudanese Army consisted of about 26, 500 men, four infantry brigades of four battalions each, three independent infantry battalions, one armoured regiment, a parachute regiment, an armoured regiment and three artillery regiments.

As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process which was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2011 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted 22 years and claimed 2 million lives.

During a two year ( 1956 – 58 ) leave of absence he also served as vice-chancellor ( president ) of the University of Khartoum — upon his departure, he turned the university over to the newly independent Sudanese government.

In 2002 a group led by Mohamad Ali Jadein broke away from the branch and established the independent Sudanese Ba ' ath Party, which has no affiliation with either the Iraqi-led Ba ' ath movement or the Syrian-led Ba ' ath movement.

In 1936, a drinking fountain was erected in Khartum in his memory, but the bronze portrait plaque and dedication were removed in 1956 by the Sudanese government, after Sudan became independent.