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unusual facts about Bor, Sudan



Abbas I

Abbas I of Egypt, Wāli and unrecognised Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1813–1854)

Abu Taha al-Sudan

He is believed to have traveled to Southern Lebanon along with Saif al-Adel, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah.

Al Noor City

A new highway connecting the cities to Dubai is proposed, though there are no plans for roads to connect sparsely populated Djibouti with the population centers of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia or Khartoum in Sudan.

Aldama

Yamilé Aldama (born 1972), a triple-jumper from Cuba who has represented both Sudan and Great Britain

Asosa

The governor of the town of Asosa, Ahmed Khalifa, on 7 July 2007 fled to Ad-Damazin, the capital of the Blue Nile State, in Sudan.

BOR-4

After reentry, they were designed to parachute to an ocean splashdown for recovery by the Soviet Navy.

Brian Steidle

In September 2004, at the age of 27, Steidle accepted an assignment as one of three U.S. military observers for the African Union in the Darfur region of western Sudan.

Clan Urquhart

The last of the chiefly line was Major Beauchamp Urquhart who was killed in 1898 at the Battle of Atbara in Sudan.

Denys Johnson-Davies

Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

Displaced persons camp

In recent times, camps have existed in many parts of the world for groups of displaced persons including for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan, and for Palestinians in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Doka

Doka, Sudan is a village in eastern Sudan, close to the Ethiopian border, near Gedaref and Kanina.

Echis ocellatus

There are also reports of single specimens found in the Bangui in the Central African Republic, and in central Sudan.

Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour

From 1927 to 1928 he served as governor of the Red Sea Province of Sudan, and from 1929 to 1930 was Governor of the Mongalla Province of Sudan.

Geoffrey Francis Archer

Archer travelled overland from Uganda to Sudan to take up his new appointment, walking from Nimule to Rejaf and then travelling by steamer down the Bahr al Jabal to Khartoum.

Hawazma tribe

These stories correspond well with the presence of scores of Hawazma in Kosti, Middle Sudan, Um Rowaba, Eastern part of Kordofan and Al Rahad, middle-eastern part of Kordofan.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Jan Bor

Jan Bor, real name Jan Jaroslav Strejček (16 February 1886 in Prague – 25 March 1943 in Zámostí, Hluboká nad Vltavou) was a Czech director and playwright.

Jean Vercoutter

One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.

Joseph Ohrwalder

Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana/South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there and escaped ten years later.

Lord Kitchener

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), prominent British soldier in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Also featured in a famous British recruitment poster in World War I.

Loyoro

Loyoro, South Sudan, a community in Eastern Equatoria state of South Sudan

Maban County

They are largely occupied by people fleeing armed conflict in Sudan's Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.

Maliarpha brunnella

It was described by Cook in 1997, and is known from Sudan (including Mongalla, the type location).

Mary Boyoi

The SVMH album was compiled by German singer songwriter Max Herre and is being distributed across Sudan on audio cassettes, radio and digitally via sudanvotes.com.

Mayom

Mayom County, an administrative region in Unity State, South Sudan

Mayureswar Wildlife Sanctuary

Main species of plants present at the sanctuary include Acacia catechu (Khair), Acacia sp (Hivar), Dalbergia latifolia (Sisoo), Ziziphus mauritiana (Bor), Carissa opasa, Alysicarpus bupleurifolius, Cyathocline purpurea, Eriocauion diane, Merremia marginata, Cucumis melo, Cyperus kyllingia, Striaga densiflora and Mereilea minuta.

Meroitic

Meroitic is an adjective referring to things related to the kingdom of Meroë in pre-Islamic Sudan.

Narus

Narus, South Sudan, a community in Eastern Equatoria State of South Sudan

No. 163 Squadron RAF

The squadron reformed in 10 July 1942 at Asmara, Egypt and equipped with Hudson aircraft that operated a mail and communications service to Khartoum, Sudan and other African countries.

Ouaddai Empire

It emerged in the sixteenth century as an offshoot of the Sultanate of Darfur (in present-day Sudan) to the northeast of the Kingdom of Baguirmi.

Pakok

When that regime collapsed in May 1991, the SPLA began moving hundreds of thousands of refugees back to Sudan, many of them temporarily settled at Nasir, Pochalla, and Pakok (the new name for Khor Shum).

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Population growth

The nation is also host to roughly 255,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region, and about 77,000 refugees from the Central African Republic, while approximately 188,000 Chadians have been displaced by their own civil war and famines, have either fled to either the Sudan, the Niger, or more recently, Libya.

Rolf Steiner

He rose to the level of Lt. Commander of the 4th Commando Brigade in the Biafran Army during the Nigerian Civil War, and later served with the Anyanya rebels in southern Sudan.

RTB Bor

Copper mining is the key basis of Bor's economy and the effects of decreased production could be seen all over the town.

Sudan – South Sudan Border War

On 15 April 2012, according to IRIB World Service, an Iran Broadcasting channel, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran fully monitors the developments in the region, and calls on South Sudan to immediately and unconditionally pull back its forces and return to its territory behind the designated borders.

Sudan Golden Sparrow

The Sudan Golden Sparrow is a highly gregarious and nomadic bird and will form mixed flocks with other seed-eating birds, such as Red-billed Quelea, and other sparrows.

Sudan–United States relations

In the early and mid-1990s, Carlos the Jackal, Osama bin Laden, Abu Nidal, and other terrorist leaders resided in Khartoum.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

The Four Feathers

Most of the action over the next six years takes place in the eastern Sudan, where the British and Egyptians held Suakin.

The HBK Gang

Iamsu! was born Sudan Ahmeer Williams in Richmond, California, on November 17, 1989, and was an early fan of artists such as Kanye West, R. Kelly, Aaliyah, Marching Band, and reggae music.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569, adopted unanimously on 26 October 2004, after invoking Article 28 of the United Nations Charter, the Council decided to hold a two-day meeting on the situation in Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1663

Calling the situation in Sudan a "threat to international peace and security", the Council also expressed concern at the movement of weapons and armed groups across borders, including the long-running insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the implications on Sudanese civilians.

Water conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Sudan is also planning on building the Merowe Dam south of the Kajbar and enlarging the Roseires Dam, located 300 miles southeast of Khartoum on the Blue Nile.

Water For South Sudan

Then, as a teenager, he led 1500 "Lost Boys" hundreds of miles through the southern Sudan desert to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

Water law

In 1899, construction of the first Aswan Dam was begun to address agricultural and energy shortages exacerbated by population growth in Egypt and the Sudan.

William Nyuon Bany

It is not clear whether Commander William was part of the Anyanya 1, however before the war broke out in Southern Town of Bor, he served as a Major in the Sudanese army in Ayot.

Zande people

It was one Kingdom stretching from Rafaï, Zemio and Obo in what is now the Central African Republic, to the regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo along the Uele River, and the Western Equatoria State in South Sudan.

Zeinab Badawi

Her great-grandfather, Sheikh Babiker Badri, fought against Kitchener's British forces at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and pioneered women's education in Sudan.


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