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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 December 2014
Diary: ‘Sudan Visit, 1958’
‘The problem of the Southern provinces – some possible solutions’, undated
1 Not included.
2 Minister of Justice.
3 Examples of regions within unitary systems that hold asymmetric powers compared to other regions within the state.
4 House of Representatives.
5 The month before was an especially tense month in the Middle East, with the coup d’état that dramatically brought down the monarchy in Iraq causing crises across the region, including American and British military intervention in Lebanon and Jordan respectively to prevent the incumbent regimes from suffering a similar fate to that of Iraq.
6 District commissioners.
7 A language group proximate to South Sudan in neighbouring British East Africa.
8 National Unionist Party, which won the first parliamentary elections in 1953 under Ismail Al Azhari, who became the first Prime Minister.
9 Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, Sudanese religious and political leader.
10 The Umma party won the February 1958 elections.
11 Sayyid Ali al-Mirghani, leader of the People's Democratic Party (see n. 12 below).
12 Jennings is probably referring to the People's Democratic Party, which was a breakaway party from the N.U.P.
13 Ushr is an Islamic tithe.