Republic of the Sudan - a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956; involved in state-sponsored terrorismArab League - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation Kordofan - a mountainous province of central Sudan Omdurman - a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum Libyan Desert - the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan Africa - the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean Nile, Nile River - the world's longest river (4180 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization Sudanese - a native or inhabitant of Sudan |