Sudan achieves independence on January 1, 1956,…
1956 CE
Instead, the Constituent Assembly adopts a document known as the Transitional Constitution, which replaces the governor-general as head of state with a five-member Supreme Commission that is elected by a parliament composed of an indirectly elected Senate and a popularly elected House of Representatives.
The Transitional Constitution also allocates executive power to the prime minister, who is nominated by the House of Representatives and confirmed in office by the Supreme Commission.
Although it has achieved independence without conflict, the Republic of Sudan has inherited many problems from the condominium.
Chief among these is the status of the civil service.
The government places Sudanese in the administration and provides compensation and pensions for British officers of the Sudan Political Service who leave the country; it retains those who cannot be replaced, mostly technicians and teachers.
Khartoum achieve this transformation quickly and with a minimum of turbulence, although southerners resent the replacement of British administrators in the south with northern Sudanese.
To advance their interests, many southern leaders concentrate their efforts in Khartoum, where they hope to win constitutional concessions.
Although determined to resist what they perceive to be Arab imperialism, they are opposed to violence.
Most southern representatives support provincial autonomy and warn that failure to win legal concessions will drive the south to rebellion.
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Dinka people
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Nuer people
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Arab people
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Islam
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Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe)
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian
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Egypt, Kingdom of (British Protectorate)
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