Al Qadarif (Arabic: القضارف, Gadaref, Gadarif or Qadārif) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 75,263 km² and an estimated population of approximately 1,400,000 (2000). Al Qadarif is the capital of the state. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x733, 58 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Al Qadarif (state) ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x733, 58 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Al Qadarif (state) ... The Arabic language ( ), or simply Arabic ( ), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. ... States as of 2000 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan had eight mudiriyas, or provinces, which were ambiguous when created but became well defined by the beginning of the Second World War. ... Al Qadarif (Gedarif) is the capital of the state of Al Qadarif in Sudan. ...
He led a nationalist revolt against Egyptian rule culminating in the fall of Khartoum (city), Sudan in 1885, in which the British General Gordon was killed, and during which a tribe in the region of Port Sudan, Sudan inspired Rudyard Kipling's poem Fuzzy Wuzzy.
It was the introduction of Sharia law and the dissolution of the 3 federal states in the South that led to the reinvigoration of the civil war.
In 1989 General Omar el-Bashir became president and chief of state, prime minister and chief of the armed forces.
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