The Southern Front was a
Sudan
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ese
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, from the ranks of which came the first
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of the
High Executive Council of the
Southern Sudan Autonomous Region,
Abel Alier
Abel Alier Kwai (born June 23, 1933) is a South Sudanese politician and judge who served as Vice President of Sudan between 1971 and 1982 and as President of the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region between 1972 and 1978. ...
, the first head of the
autonomous government
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of that then
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
ese region, in 1972.
Between 1965 and 1969, the Southern Front published ''
The Vigilant
''The Vigilant'' was an English language, English-language newspaper published from Khartoum, Sudan.Galander, Mahmoud M. Mass Media in Sudan: Towards History of Media-Politics Interplay'. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2001. p. 60Akol, Lam. Southern Sud ...
'', an English language newsletter as the mouthpiece of the Southern movement.
[Collins, Robert O. ]
A History of Modern Sudan
'. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. p. 88
References
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Defunct political parties in South Sudan
Separatism in Sudan