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Khartoum — Sudan’s dawn
1 Jan 1956 — Sudan raises its own flag over the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, choosing self-rule over union with Egypt — a Nile-valley precedent watched from Cairo to Kampala.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The First Doors in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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