Nimeiry attempts to mend fences with northern…
July 1972 CE
The government undertakes administrative decentralization, popular with the Ansar, that favors rural over urban areas, where leftist activism is most evident.
Khartoum also reaffirms Islam's special position in the country, recognizes the sharia as the source of all legislation, and releases some members of religious orders who had been incarcerated.
However, a reconciliation with conservative groups, which had organized outside Sudan under Sadiq al Mahdi's leadership and will later be known as the National Front, elude Nimeiry.
