SUDAN: A NATION DIVIDED

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• Document Release Date: February 15, 2007
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• Publication Date: September 1, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

Directorate of
Intelligence
Sudan: A Nation Divided
An Intelligence Assessment
Secret
Secret
GI 81-10181
September 1982
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 Directorate of
Intelligence
Sa~dan: A Nation. Divided
Secret
An Intelligence Assessment
Information available as of 1 S September 1982
has been used in the preparation of this report.
This paper was prepared b
Office of Global Issues. Comments an queries are
welcome and may be addr ssed to the Chief,
Geography Division, OGI
This paper has been coordinated with the National
Intelligence Council
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September 1982
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 Sudan: Basic Data
Government leader and political party: President
Gen. Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri; Sudan Socialist
Union
T e: re ublic under military control since May 1969
Political subdivisions: six regions; regional govern-
ments recently granted additional authority0
Branches: President and Cabinet; 151-member Peo-
ple's Assembly; five regional assemblies inaugurated
June 1981 for northern Sudan; plans for division of
southern Sudan under consideration.
GDP: $8.9 billion (1981), $461 per capita
Highways: 23,000 km total; 1,800 km bituminous
treated, 3,652 km gravel, 2,304 km improved earth;
remainder unimproved earth and trac
Inland waterways: 5,310 km navigabl~
Pipelines: refined products, 815 km
Ports: 1 major (Port Sudan)
Civil air: 17 major trans ort aircraft, including one
leased
Air~elds.? 80 total, 72 usable; 9permanent-surface
runways; 4 runways 2,440 to 3 659 meters 33 run-
ways 1,220 to 2,439 meters
Merchant. marine: 10 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
totaling 89,916 GRT, 121,978 DWT? includes 8
cargo, 2 roll-on/roll-off cargo
Electric power: 310,000 kW capacity (1980); 1.2
billion kWh produced (1980), 65 kWh per capita
Exports: $594.0 million (f.o.b., FY 1980); cotton (56
percent), gum arabic, peanuts, sesame; $187.3 million
exports to Communist countries (FY 1979)
Imports: $1.3 billion (c.i.f., FY 1980); textiles, petro-
leum products, vehicles, tea, wheat
Budget: (FY 1980) public revenue $2.0 billion, total
expenditures $2.7 billion, including development ex-
penditure $660.0 million
Large system by African standards, barely adequate;
consists of radio relay, cables, radio communications,
and troposcatter; domestic satellite system, 14 sta-
tions; 63,400 telephones (0.3 per 100 population); five
AM, no FM, two TV stations; one Atlantic Ocean
satellite station
Military manpower: males 15 to 49, 4,544,000;
2,778,000 fit for military service; 209,000 reach mili-
tary age (18) annually)
Aid: economic commitments-OPEC (ODA,
1974-80), $2 billion; Western (non-US) countries,
ODA and OOF (1970-79), $904 million; Communist
countries (1970-80), $262; United States, including
Ex-Im (FY 1970-80), $238 million; military-Com-
munist countries (1970-80), $72 million; United States
(FY 1970-80), $31 million
Transportation
Railroads: 5,516 km total; 4,800 km 1.067-meter
gauge, 716 km 1.6096-meter gauge plantation line
Personnel: 51,000 Army, 2,000 Navy, 3,300 Air
Force (70 pilots), 3,000 air defense
Major ground units: 3 infantry divisions (8 infantry
brigades, 26 infantry battalions), 1 armored division (2
armored brigades), 1 artillery corps, 1 airborne bri-
gade, 1 engineer corps, 2 border guard battalions 1
presidential guard battalion, plus support troops
Ships: 9 patrol boats, 2 utility landing craft, 4 harbor
patrol craft, 4 auxiliaries, 15 percent operational
 EI Gamhuria Avenue-the ma-
for thorougls/are in Khartoum's
largest business district
Refugees fleeing civil disorder
in Uganda cross the White Nile
to safety in southern Sudan.
Ugandan refugees building
their house in southern Sudan,
where more than 100,000 of
their countrymen have sought
refugefromlighting and starva-
tion in their homeland.
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 Farm workers in one oJ'the
many cotton fields at Gezira.
Sudan's largest (800,000 hec-
tares) agricultural scheme
Steamer on the White Nile, the
most reliable transporation
link between Juba and Khar-
toum.
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 Seismic drilling rig and crew
search for oil. Rig has become
Sudan's symbol of hope f^^por
economic recoveryl~
Anyanya rebels in a training
camp in southern Sudan during
the 1965-72 civil war. Guerrilla
training for Sudanese dissi-
dents in similar camps in
Ehtiopia is n w by
Libya.
A typical northern Sudanese
woman. Although she has a
mixed racial herita e, she touts
her Arab ancestry.
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