The Addis Ababa Accords were a series of compromises in 1972, aimed at appeasing the non-muslim leaders of the insurgency in southern Sudan after the first Sudanese Civil War proved costly to the muslim Sudanese government. Widespread local autonomy was granted. There followed a decade of relative peace. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The First Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1955 to 1972 between the northern part of Sudan and a south that demanded more regional autonomy. ...
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Later in 1971 he was elected President, and succeeded in ending the 17-year civil war between north and south Sudan the next year with the AddisAbabaAgreement.
In violation of the AddisAbabaAgreement he dissolved the southern Sudanese government, thereby prompting a renewal of the civil war.
1972: With the AddisAbabaAgreement, autonomy is granted to the non-Muslim southern region of Sudan, which brought peace and stability to the region which had witnessed civil war since 1955, before Sudan's independence.
The word federal in a general sense refers to the nature of an agreement between or among two or more states, nations, or other groups to merge into a union in which control of common affairs is held by a central authority created by and with the consent of the...
In 1972, the AddisAbabaAgreement led to a cessation of the north-south civil war and a degree of self-rule.
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