Talodi (Sudan)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 10 ° 38 '  N , 30 ° 23'  E

Map: Sudan
marker
Talodi
Magnify-clip.png
Sudan

Talodi (seldom also written Talawdi or Teloudi , Arabic تلودي) is a city in the Nuba Mountains in the state of Dschanub Kurdufan in Sudan . It is located east of Kaduqli .

history

During the colonial period, the Nuba Mountains were temporarily administered as a separate province with Talodi as the capital, before they were annexed to the Kurdufan Province in 1929 .

On October 31, 2011, fighting between the Sudanese People's Liberation Army North (SPLM-N) and the Sudanese Army took place in Talodi . Several hundred people were killed in the process. Both parties to the conflict claimed that the victims were soldiers of the enemy.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Hundreds of rebels killed in fighting in Sudan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 1, 2011, accessed November 2, 2011 .
  2. AH Abdel Salam, Ale de Waal (ed.): The Phoenix State. Civil Society and the Future of Sudan. Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville NJ 2001, ISBN 1-56902-143-0 , p. 256.
  3. Dominic Johnson : Military Escalation. In: the daily newspaper . November 1, 2011, accessed November 3, 2011 .