The Southern Front was a
Sudan
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ese
political party
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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
Abel Alier Kwai (born June 23, 1933) is a South Sudanese politician and judge who served as First Vice President of Sudan between 1971 and 1982 and as President of the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region between 1972 ...
, the first head of the
autonomous government
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of that then
Sudan
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ese region, in 1972.
Between 1965 and 1969, the Southern Front published ''
The Vigilant
''The Vigilant'' was an English-language newspaper published from Khartoum, Sudan.Akol, Lam. Southern Sudan: Colonialism, Resistance, and Autonomy'. Trenton, NJ .a. Red Sea Press, 2007. p. 47 The first issue was published on March 23, 1965. It was ...
'', 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