The Southern Front was a
Sudan
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ese
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, from the ranks of which came the first
President
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of the
High Executive Council of the
Southern Sudan Autonomous Region,
Abel Alier, the first head of the
autonomous government of that then
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
ese region, in 1972.
Between 1965 and 1969, the Southern Front published ''
The Vigilant
''The Vigilant'' was an English language, English-language newspaper published from Khartoum, Sudan.Galander, Mahmoud M. Mass Media in Sudan: Towards History of Media-Politics Interplay'. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2001. p. 60Akol, Lam. Southern Sud ...
'', an English language newsletter as the mouthpiece of the Southern movement.
[Collins, Robert O. ]
A History of Modern Sudan
'. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. p. 88
References
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Defunct political parties in South Sudan
Separatism in Sudan