SUDAN

POPULATION AND MAJOR CITIES

• Population- 37.2 million
• Http://countryeconomy.com/demography/population/sudan
• Major cities are: Khartoum, khartoum north, nyala, Port Sudan, Al-Ubayyid
• Kassala, Al Qadarif, Kusti, Wad Madani, Al- Fashir, Singa, Geneina
• http://www.travelmath.com/cities-in/Sudan

ETHNICITIES

• Sudanese Arab- an Afro-Arab, make up most of the population
• Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Arabs
• Fur- people of the Darfur region in western Sudan and former Islamic Sultanate
• www.minorityrights.org/4005/sudan/fur.html

ETHNICITIES CONTINUED...

• Beja- contains smaller clansbelieve that they are the descendants of Sekhmet
• En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beja_people
• Nuba- collective term used for people who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of
• South Kordofan state, in Sudan
• En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuba_peoples

ABOUT THE WARS

• Civil War in Sudan
• Began in 1983, between Northern and Southern Sudan
• Conflict about differences between Muslims and Christians
• http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/cvlw_env_sdn.html

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Some natural resouces are petroleum, copper,
• Chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver
• Gold, and hydropower
• www.index,undi.com/sudan/natural_resouces.html

INDUSTRIES

• Oil industries is a lucrative natural recourse.
• It was discoverec in southwestern Sudan in 1977.
• Http://m.search.ev.com/topic/571417#24349.toc

GOVERNMENT AND HISTORICAL EVENT

• Federal, Presidential, Republic
• Http://country-facts.findthedata.org/q/163/14298/What-type-of -government-does-Sudan-have
• In 1998 the USA launches a missile attack on a chemical plant in Khartoum assumed to
• develop chemical weapons possibly in coorporation with the Al'Qaeeda terror network.
• http://crawfurd.dk/africa/sudan_timeline.htm

LEADER AND HOW LARGE THE COUNTRY IS PHYSICALLY

• The leader is Omar Al-Bashir.
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/omar-bashir-flees-nigeria_n_360428...
• It is 16/km2 big.
• www.allcoutries.eu/sudan.htm

MAJOR PHYSICAL FEATURES AND THE FLAG

• The flag is red, white,black, and green
• Sudan hosts the Lybian Desert and sits next to the Red Sea.
• Part of the Sahara Desert is in Sudan.
• Sudan is also the world's largest desert region.
• http://www.ask.com/question/physical-features-of-sudan

NEWSLETTER

• "Riot police officers on Wednesday fired tear gas on protesters after the funeral of a student at the University
• of Khartoum. The student, Ali Abaker Musa Idris, was shot to death on Tuesday, when student activists from
• Darfur who were demonstrating against an escalation of violence in Darfur attempted to march on the
• streets of Khartoum. They were met with riot police officers."
• Http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/world/africa/sudan-police-fire-tear-gas-a...

AGRICULTURE

• 60% of the water resource to sustaining the agricultural sector.
• over 80% of the work force and accounts for nearly 40% of the Gross Domestic Product.
• The country is blessed with a wealth of 300-400 million feddans of fertile land.
• http://sudanembassy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Ite...

EDUCATION

• Some universities are Sudan University of Science and Technology, Aleelian University
• University of Juba, University of Khartoum with the national library
• Omdurman Ahlia, and University Omdurman Islamic University.
• There are a lot more universities in Sudan. They have a lot of education.
• www.sudan.net/about.php

CLIMATE

• Usually tropical through February to November.
• Northern part of Sudan is 1/3 of Arid Desert.
• Central part is 1/3 tropical wet-and-dry type of climate.
• Southern is tropical with open savanna grassland, marshland, and rain forest
• http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/99_00/AF/Sud/sud_geo.htm