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Sudan

⬅️ Countries · Region: Africa · Wars · Journals

A country hub for the Sudan material already in this vault: conflict histories, Darfur, source records, notebook pages and references elsewhere. Existing material about South Sudan is included where it connects to these notes; the two countries and their separate conflicts should remain distinguishable.

Existing journal source boundary

“These are captured journal materials; the integration does not independently verify every clipped claim, quotation, or figure.”
→ Sudan, Wars & Genocide — journal connection

Contents: Start here · Sudan notes · Journal pages · Sources and reports · Connections and study material · Other references · Live backlinks

Start here

Broad overview: Sudan, Wars & Genocide.

Earlier civil wars: The First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars, then Darfur for the regional case.

The war beginning in 2023: Sudan Civil War 2023–.

Sudan notes

The five dedicated knowledge notes are listed below. Their historical arguments, legal characterizations and numerical estimates remain attributable to their existing sources; this hub organizes them.

Sudan, Wars & Genocide — Existing overview of conflict, humanitarian conditions, chronology and source links; also connects to the dedicated Zibaldone page. Includes B5 study pages on the north–south religious and economic divide and on Islam in Sudan and its wars.

The First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars — Video-based history, timeline, actors and B5 study pages for the first and second civil wars.

The Second Sudanese Civil War — Casual Historian — Short video notes on the second civil war, the SPLM/SPLA, Islamization and regional involvement.

Darfur — Regional conflict history, actors, genocide determinations, casualty estimates and references.

Sudan Civil War 2023– — Working note on the SAF–RSF war, its background, foreign involvement and humanitarian reporting, with a B5 study page current to October 2026.

Maps for north–south differences and internal diversity

Use these with the earlier civil-war notes. The formerly united Sudan maps span both of today’s countries. They show the author’s ethnic and religious estimates, not military control; do not project them onto current front lines or treat the north or south as homogeneous.

Ethnic subdivisions of formerly united Sudan

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A visual check on the simplified Arab-north versus African-south shorthand: identify the many communities within the north, Darfur, the Nuba areas, and the south.

Map source: Dr. Michael Izady, Gulf/2000, Columbia University. Original map · Collection. Personal reference use; copyright remains with the author.

Religious geography of formerly united Sudan

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Compare the broad religious geography across the old united state. Read the historical reference period and legend in the image; this is not a current census of either country.

Map source: Dr. Michael Izady, Gulf/2000, Columbia University. Original map · Collection. Personal reference use; copyright remains with the author.

South Sudan: the author’s 2010 religious reconstruction

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The image is explicitly labeled “by 2010.” Its religious percentages and projections are the author’s estimates, not current South Sudan census figures. Use it as a dated interpretation, not as the final answer about today’s Christian or indigenous-faith shares.

Map source: Dr. Michael Izady, Gulf/2000, Columbia University. Original map · Collection. Personal reference use; copyright remains with the author.

Source and interpretation: Gulf2000 map collection.

Journal pages

Zibaldone 2024–2025 — PDF page 97: Dedicated Sudan page (file not included in this release). A compiled political timeline and highlighted report excerpts. Mainly captured printed material with highlighting.

Zibaldone 2024–2025 — PDF page 167: Handwritten Sudan notes (file not included in this release). The right-hand column under “The Rise of War 2024” includes a Sudan subsection on deaths, displacement and hunger. Figures are recorded notebook claims, not updated estimates.

June–September 2026 — PDF page 94 / notebook page 86: “Sudan (Islamist)” in the comparative talking-points list (file not included in this release). A brief handwritten mention within “Reverse P./anti-Israel Talking Points.” The label records the notebook’s wording.

Search and navigation: Zibaldone OCR companion · Zibaldone page index · June–September OCR companion. These three pages were visually verified against the original scans on 20 October 2026; PDF page numbers and physical notebook numbers differ.

Sources and reports

These are the 20 Sudan-focused source records found in the existing source library. A record may contain only metadata, a quotation or an attachment link; listing it does not imply that its full source has been retrieved or independently checked. Titles preserve the source’s framing.

Locally stored report: Human Rights Watch — “The Massalit Will Not Come Home” (May 2024) (file not included in this release).

Connections and study material

Regional and comparative context: Africa · African wars · Colonialism · History.

Related debates and interpretations: Reverse Talking Points · Slavery · Arab Colonization. These are connections to existing arguments, rather than Sudan histories or independent verification of their claims.

Study material: The First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars Explained — completed learning task · Blood and Soil — wider genocide-history reading record. The task’s completion state is preserved; the book record does not establish reading completion.

Other Sudan references throughout the vault

A full-vault text search on 20 October 2026 identified 145 existing Markdown notes containing Sudan/Sudanese, Soudan, Darfur, Khartoum, Janjaweed, Hemedti, al-Bashir or al-Burhan. The five dedicated notes, three journal companions/indexes, twenty focused source records, one task and one reading record are linked above. The remaining 115 notes appear below, including passing mentions, maps, comparative arguments, transcripts and imported captures. This is a dated text-match inventory, not a claim that each note is principally about Sudan or that every handwritten mention has been found.

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