An overlooked source in Northeast African history is the series of printed monthly intelligence reports issued first by the Egyptian, and then the Sudan intelligence department between 1892 and 1929. Initially prepared by F. W. Wingate, these reports at first contained reports on Egypt's former territories in the Sudan, as well as in neighbouring countries. The rep...

The settlement of Sudanese soldier colonists throughout British East Africa was a legacy of colonial expansion and pacification. These settlements were developed from the institution of military slavery, which was marked by a close association of slave soldiers with the state and the isolation of military slave communities from the general populace. But once pacifi...

The Abyei Area, straddling the North?South border of Sudan, was the subject of a separate protocol in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed between the Sudan government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in January 2005. One provision of that protocol was the establishment of a boundaries commission to define the territory to be included in the special a...