10 Things you didn’t know about Sudan

Written by Sudanipreneur

One:

Compared to Egypt’s 80 Pyramids, Sudan has over three times as many with over 300 known pyramids located all over The Sudans

Two:

The Sudans are over 1,000,000^2 miles, that is over One Million Square Miles, the largest country in Africa, the Middle East and the largest predominantly muslim country

Three:

The Sudans have had Africa’s longest running civil war, with over 50 years of constant war, leading to over 2 million dead, many millions displaced, and the recent division of the Nation into two Regions

Four:

The Sudans are the first and only nation to have power transferred to a fully democratically elected, fully functioning parliament, from a European Colonising super power, with the British & Egyptian powers transferring full power to the Independent Republic of Sudan on the 1 January 1956

Five:

The Sudans had the first African Revolution and popular mass demonstrations removing the political powers, and were already on revolution number three at the Rise of the Arab Spring, having ousted the British during the Mahadiya Revolt and Uprising in 1885, and the overthrow of two Military Dictatorships of Ibrahim Abood in October 1964 and Jaafar El Nimari in 1985, with the current military take over by Omar El Bashir in 1989 continuing to hold onto power.
Six:

The Sudans were the only nation in the British Empire reporting to the British Foreign Office directly as opposed to the Ministery of the Commonwealth, which meant all the ruling commanders where OxBridge Alum, and had extensive experience

Seven:

The Sudans decided to leave the British Commonwealth region and join the Arab League

Eight:

At the birth of the newly independent nation the British left the Sudans with the Best education system, postal system, rail network and bureaucratic system in the British Empire, which due to mismanagement and constant political upheaval has been ravaged and destroyed in recent times

Nine:

The Sudans are the most diverse and multicultural region with over 500 tribes, 200 dialects and languages and trace their ancestory to ancient Nubian, Trukish, and Muslim empires with great diversity in color, skin tone, hair complexion throughout the diverse and vast regions of The Sudans

Ten:

The Sudans were one of the founding nations of not only the African Football Federation (CAF) but of the African Cup of Nations, along with Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa which was expelled from the First Edition due to the Apartheid Era policies in 1957, with The Sudans Football Team known by their nickname the Nile Crocodiles winning the 1979 edition which was hosted in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, their one and only victory

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