FORMATION OF THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FRONTS

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• Publication Date: December 22, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Anglo-i yptian Sudan
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Ichidr Ozaer, Secretary-General of the Ashiqqa Party, was elected as its
Secretary.
2. The new front held its first meeting on 10 July 1948 and resolved to
fight all governzient programs for the Sudan, Ttile endeavoring to rea-
lize a union of the Sudan with Egypt under the 1 gyptian Crotm. A coi lu-
tee reviewed the situation and decided to sand telegrams of protest
against a new law which forbids government officials to engage in
political activity. It also issued a stateraent urging the Sudanese
people to help the front because "the front is pledged to foil the
imperialist Sudanization schemes." The composition of this front is
as follows:
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to The parties constituting the National Front net with the Sudan Graduates,
General Congress on 19 June 3,948 at the Oridurman Schools Club and agreed
to establish the "Internal Struggle Front." Each party in the new front
grill be represented by two members; the Graduates# Congress was allotted
four representatives. The Internal Struggle Front was designed to ob-
a.
Graduates' Congress: 'lubarrak Zarruk, 'Abd-al-Hahman Hamza, and
Hasan Abu Gabal.
b.
Ashiqqa Party:
:iuhatnmad ITur-al-Din, I:hi.dr Omer.
c.
Unionist Party:
'Abdullah i.:irghani, oeibd-al-I onein ?Iassaballa.
d.
Unity of the :file Valley Party: Dardiri Ahmad Ismail, Almad Singi.
a.
Liberal-Unionist Party: Ahead Uuhamwad 'AU, iayob I;Iuhaaaad 1 heir.
3. The front net again on 24 July 1943 and passed resolutions to send
representatives to the provinces to conduct a propaganda canpaigi a-
gainst the proposed constitutional reforms. A member proposed a ration
to demand a credit of Y,E 60,000 from the Egyptian Government A :siLfill
the aims of the front. At another meeting Sudanese journalic were
called to a press conference to devise methods by tthich t .* press could
cojtribute to the front's objectives. It was stated at V e meeting that
se ers of the Congress and the pro-unit parties mule' have to contri-
bute a "strug{;le tax" toward the funds - o the front.
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In defianco of the newlywproraulgated 1 a, the front asked all civil
servants belonging to pro-unity parties to oontisue their political
activities. The front also announced its intention to hold political
gatherings in many tome izmediately after the Bairam holidays. These
activities led to many clashes with the laws beginning in August 1948.
On i1 August, a1 Obeid police arrested five members of the secretariat
of the National Front, follow the distribution of seditious paurph-
lets sided by the front. Soon leaflets signed by the Internal Struggle
Front appeared in and around Khartoum.
5. on 14 August 1918 Sudanese elements in Cairo under the leadership of
'Ali Bireir formed the "External Stru .e Front," independent of the
dissolved Sudanene Delegation, headed by Ismail Azhari. They proposad
to carom out the same program in Cairo as did the Internal Front in the
Sudan. The alms of this External Struggle Front were stated to be
as follows:
a. To explain the Sudan question to the Egyptian public, the Arab world,
and the international public.
b. To explain to the Sudanese public the developments in %gypt,'and to
help the Internal Struggle of the Sudan by all means.
c. To work with all available means against the Sudanization schemes
and to struggle to realize the Unity of the Nile Va3.ley under
King Faruq.
6. The External Struggle Front formed -a committee which was composed of
the following individuals:
a. 'Ali Bireir, President,
b. Sheikh Mustafa Tayeb, Vice-.President.
c. Husayri Mansur and Khidr Hamid, Secretaries.
d. G is 1 al-Din Sanhuri, propaganda officer.
6- MW A al-Din Bireir and Sulaymen 'Al.i, Treasurers,
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