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Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to Sudan, 1964.
Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to Sudan, 1964.
Adriane Ohanesian / AFP/ Getty Images
Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel soldiers train in in South Kordofan, Sudan, on April 25, 2012.
Cedric Gerbehaye / Magnum Foundation / Agence VU
South Sudan, August 11, 2010 - Many cattle keepers refused to surrender their weapons during the last disarmament program. According to them, they have to remain armed to defend themselves during cattle raids. Further complicating the likely secession are the multiple tribes and internal feuding among the cattle herders.
Thomas Mukoya / Reuters
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (L) and Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attend the Independence Day ceremony in South Sudan's capital Juba, July 9, 2011.
Peter Martell / AFP / Getty Images
Southern Sudanese wait for food, shelter, security and medicine at the village of Nzara, along Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Aug. 18, 2010. Thousands have fled their nearby villages since a recent series of attacks by guerrilla fighters believed to be from the Lord's Resistance Army
Abd Raouf / AP
Sudan's vice president, Salva Kiir, from the largest party representing southern Sudan, right, swears an oath in front of President Omar al-Bashir, in Khartoum, Sudan
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir waves to the crowd after arriving at Khartoum Airport Sept. 28, 2012.
PETER MACKLER / AFP/ GETTY
OUTREACH:
Rice visits a camp for displaced people in Darfur, Sudan, last month. She says she has taken a hard line with Sudanese leaders to get them to end the violence
Giorgos Moutafis / EPA
Thousands of Southern Sudanese celebrate South Sudan's Independence in Juba, South Sudan, July 8 2011.
Tim Freccia / Enough Project
George Clooney visits Sudan to draw attention to the dangers that could result should southern Sudan vote to separate from the north
Hannah McNeish / AFP / Getty Images
A worker lays out bags of grain at the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan, around 40 km from the border with Sudan, on Dec. 5, 2011
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters
Sudan's Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein speaks during a joint news conference in Khartoum in this September 18, 2011 file photo.
Benjamin Lowy / Corbis
Soldiers with the Sudan Liberation Army, or SLA, camp along the border between Chad and Sudan before venturing further into government-controlled territory in Darfur.
Sudan TV via APTN / AP
This video frame grab image taken from Sudan TV via AP Television News shows a plane that burst into flames after apparently veering off a runway at an airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday June 10, 2008.
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Sudan's 1983-2003 civil war was fanned in part by rival factions' efforts to control the country's rich oil fields.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
South Sudan's army, or the SPLA, soldiers drive in a truck on the frontline in Panakuach, Unity state April 24, 2012.
Paul Banks / UNMIS / Reuters
Residents gather outside UNMIS sector headquarters in Kadugli town June 9, 2011. As many as 40,000 people may have fled fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan state according to the United Nations.
Adriane Ohanesian / AFP / Getty Images
SPLA (South Sudan People's Liberation Army) vehicles drive on the road from Bentiu to Heglig, on April 17, 2012.
Thomas Mukoya / Reuters
A man waves South Sudan's national flag as he attends the Independence Day celebrations in the capital Juba, July 9, 2011.
Peter Martell / AFP / Getty Images
Malik Agar, deputy chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement speaks to the press in the southern Sudanese capital Juba on August 19, 2009.
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters
A southern Sudan woman stands near students from the southern oil region of Abyei who are demonstrating in Khartoum against the delay of the referendum, Nov. 4, 2010
Karim Jaafar / AFP / Getty
Sudanese Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj (L) arrives to the airport in Doha late May 31, 2008. Hajj had returned to Sudan on May 2 following his release from the Guantanamo US military prison where he was held without charge for more than six years.
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters
People from Southern Sudan's Dinka tribe demonstrate outside the U.N.'s Khartoum headquarters, Sept. 23, 2010, calling for a referendum commission on the Abyei oil-producing region claimed by the north and the south
Kyodo / Newscom
People in Juba, southern Sudan, call for the independence for the region on Jan. 7, 2011.
Reuters
Sudan's President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, waves to supporters at an event organized by the Sudanese embassy in Cairo on July 17, 2009
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A Sudanese man waves the regional flag of southern Sudan during a protest in the small town of Kauda in the South Kordofan state on January 15, 2011, calling for electoral reforms in the Nuba Mountains region.
Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir addresses participants at the launch of a national initiative to bring peace to Darfur, in Khartoum.
Ramzi Haidar / AFP / Getty Images
Rebels from the Sudan Liberation Movement
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Sudan Liberation Army rebels after a raid on Tawila
KAREL PRINSLOO / AP
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The Secretary General, shown here visiting refugees in the war-torn Darfur region, has called for international action but has stopped short of labeling the violence there genocide
STUART PRICE / AFP / GETTY
TOO FEW: Sudan's 7,000 African Union troops are overstretched
Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
A cafe in Khartoum, Sudan.
Chen Duo / Xinhua / Sipa
The Khartoum Refinery Co. Ltd. installation in Sudan.
Stuart Price / AFP / Getty
Rwandan soldiers of the African Union Mission in Sudan in southern Darfur, 24 July 2007.
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ANOTHER: A refugee from Sudan's Darfur region crosses into Chad on her way to the Tine refugee camp
Darryl Webb / REUTERS
Guor Marial, 28, smiles in his apartment under a South Sudan flag in Flagstaff, Arizona July 21, 2012. The marathon runner born in what is now South Sudan will be allowed to run under the Olympic flag in London, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday.
UPI Photo / Roger L. Wollenberg
President Obama and Scott Gration, the Administration's special envoy to Sudan, at the White House in 2009.
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A construction-company security guard walks by a new bridge on South Sudan's Juba-Nimule road on Jan. 24, 2011
Hannah McNeish / AFP / Getty Images
Refugees wait for food aid to be distributed in Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, near the volatile border with the north, on November 16, 2011.
Paul Banks / AFP / Getty Images
A handout picture released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) on June 10 2011, shows residents of Kadugli gathered to collect water outside UNMIS sector HQ after fleeing fighting.
Ashraf Shazly / AFP / Getty Images
South Sudanese wait to be transported on a train from Khartoum to recently independent South Sudan on October 28, 2011.
Paul Banks / UNMIS / Reuters
A voter casts her ballot in Al Shegla, Sudan, on Jan. 9, 2011
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A pedestrian walks on an unpaved road in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan on January 11, 2011.
Photograph by Dominic Nahr for TIME
"Quiet interlude" A girl returns from collecting water in Sudan's disputed district of Abyei
Phil Moore / AFP / Getty Images
Sudanese celebrate in Juba following the announcement of the preliminary results of the South Sudan referendum on Jan. 30, 2011
Ashraf Shazly / AFP / Getty
Sudanese take part in a pro-democracy rally in Omdurman, Sudan.
Xinhua / Landov
"Help from afar"Chinese laborers work on Sudan's Merowe Dam, built by a Chinese company, in 2007
Zohra Bensemra / reutres
Supporters of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in northern Sudan
Brooks Kraft—Corbis
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attends a meeting between President Bush and the President of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington July 20, 2006.
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Employees of the China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp. work on a multinational oil-exploration venture near Mehut, Sudan
Ashraf Shazly / AFP / Getty Images
A man casts his ballot at a polling station in the city of al-Kamlin, Sudan, on April 15, 2010
Left; Fernando Bengoechea / Beateworks / Corbis: Reuters
British primary school teacher Gillian Gibbons has been arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet by letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohammed.
Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrives to inaugurate the Merowe Dam in northern Sudan on March 3
Orjan F. Ellingvag / Dagens Naringsliv / Corbis
A young boy in the desert landscape surrounding the refugee camp in Touloum, Sudan.
KHALED DESOUKI / AFP / Getty
A woman walks past paintings for sale on a main street in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
Mohamed Nureldin Abdalla / Reuters
Sudanese Muslims burn a picture of British teacher Gillian Gibbons during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, November 30, 2007.
NATALIE BEHRING-CHISHOLM/GETTY IMAGES
Nodding disease, which is so far confined to a small area of Sudan, affects mostly children
Stuart Price / AFP / Getty Images
Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, answers journalists' questions in Ri-Kwamba, southern Sudan, Nov. 12, 2006.
Stuart Price / AFP / Getty Images
Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, answers journalists' questions in Ri-Kwamba, southern Sudan, Nov. 12, 2006.
Stuart Price / AFP / Getty
Sudanese fighters of the Justice and Equality Movement on the Sudan-Chad border in northwestern Darfur
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VICTIMS OF HATE: A refugee seeks treatment for his sick infant son at a clinic in the Darfur region of Sudan
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