CHINESE GORDON: THE STORY OF A HERO (256 pp.)—Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson—Funk & Waqnalls ($4). When General Charles George Gordon was speared to death at ...
That will depend partly on pressure from the general’s allies. The SAF has advanced on the battlefield in recent months largely thanks to a broad and diverse coalition assembled since the early months ...
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In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, ...
WASINGTON, April 29, 2005 — On April 14, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick became the highest ranking U.S. envoy to set foot on Sudanese soil since Secretary of State Colin Powell’s September ...
Sudan's army launched a major offensive in Khartoum in a bid to regain the capital. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, have been in control of the capital for over a year. The Sudanese ...