Sudan has always been dominated by a light-skinned, Arabic-speaking elite, while black Africans in the south ... slaves working on the vast tracts of land they owned along the Nile River.

The conventional perspective on Sudan's recent civil war (1983-2005) - one of the longest and most complex conflicts in Africa - emphasises ethnicity as the main cause. This study, on the contrary, ...

His Majesty’s illiterate subjects kissed his black feet and asked ... of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi ...

South Sudan and Tanzania, just as Somalia and Kenya, have all faced droughts and floods in quick succession, a trend blamed ...