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The Sudan Criminal Code of 1991 did not list slavery as a crime, but the Republic of Sudan has ratified the Slavery Convention, the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). [1]
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
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British East Africa: Slavery abolished. [166] 1905 French West Africa: Slavery formally abolished. Though up to one million slaves gain their freedom, slavery continues to exist in practice for decades afterward. 1906 China: Slavery abolished beginning on 31 January 1910.
The main slave routes in medieval Africa. Paul Lovejoy estimates that around 6 million black slaves were transported across the Sahara between the years 650 AD and 1500 AD. [11] The trans-Saharan slave trade, established in Antiquity, [20] continued during the Middle Ages.
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A map of Sudan. The Hala'ib Triangle has been under contested Egyptian administration since 2000. A Köppen climate classification map of Sudan. Sudan is situated in North Africa, with an 853 km (530 mi) coastline bordering the Red Sea. [208] It has land borders with Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Chad, and ...
A number of territories in modern Sudan and South Sudan were not conquered in the conquest of 1822–24, but were added following campaigns in later years. These included the Kassala region in 1840, [45] the Upper White Nile region around Fashoda in 1855, [46] Suakin and the Red Sea coast in 1865, [47] Equatoria in 1870, [48] and Darfur in 1874 ...