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Thank you.

I am glad to connect with you, someone who clearly knows about and does much research on Africa. I was one of those who believed the US started this round of strife what with Blinken’s promise to punish those who failed to support the military/ civilian government US $ 288 m humanitarian aid via the usual NED/ UASID vehicles, Victoria Nuland’s visit and the Red Sea Russian naval base.

However, it seems the issue is another Prigozhin (Or was Progizhin another Dagalo?) dangerous entities under any circumstances. This particular one has now blossomed to manifest the promised danger

And your style is such that the imagery forms very well in the mind….

You have just taken me around the Sudan in 20 minutes… the people, the terrain, the ambience, all of it

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Great article, thanks!

I think your 1983 chronology needs to be revised, though: the declaration of Sharia didn't happen until early September 1983, so events in response to that couldn't have occurred in July.

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I found surprisingly few citations of this dating, but here's a few links:

2nd Paragraph here: https://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm

(About the source: https://www.loc.gov/collections/country-studies/about-this-collection/ )

Page 9 of the PDF (labelled 145 on the page itself): https://dashboard.lira.bc.edu/downloads/8c93ed3e-55b4-42d9-9307-f1db214b3d87

(FWIW I ignored the one that said al-Bashir was in office already in 1983! LOL)

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