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Did you know that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt? It does! And you have probably never heard of them because they are impossibly hard to get to and located in a country which has for years been embargoed and closed to the outside world. How did I manage to spend almost 18 months in Sudan? Thanks to work. I got the chance to spend time there on two different ocassions on different years and, although I did not spend most weekends in Khartoum I did get the chance to see the temples and pyramids that can be found in the dessert, hidden and remote. The pyramids in Meroe are not easy to get to independently. At that time, and I don't expect things to have improved much since, you needed first to get a driver with a 4x4, a GPS, lots of road permits to get through the road controls outside of Khartoum and also pre-purchase tickets to visit each of the temples/pyramids. All of the permits and tickets need to be obtained from the central government in Khartoum. Tickets from the Antiquities Service. Shadows on the dunes The GPS system is because the pyramids arein the middle of the dessert and can only be reached by driving across the dunes. So not only do you need the GPS system you also need to know how to use it so that you don't get lost in the vastness of the dessert. Bottom line: you need to be a bit of an Indiana Jones to get there. The only alternative is to go with an organized tour or to book a stay with the Italian Tourism Company which operates the Meroe Permanent Tented camp and can organize the transportation and an itinerary to include Meroe and Karima, the other jewel of Sudanese Nubian history. The camp is only open during the dry months of October to April, outside of these times it is not advisable to go becuse the haboob (sand storms) and the torrential rains hat amde living by the Nile so important to Egyptian civilization make it very dangerous. It is the only accommodation of comfortable standards in the area. If you can't afford that one then the only option is to stay in Shendi at a local house. Meroe is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi approximately 200 km north-east of the capital Khartoum. It was of relevant importance in the Nubian kingdom between the 280 BC and the 300 AC when the Nubians controlled much of Egypt and almost all of today's Sudan down to Khartoum. There are close to two hundred pyramids in a relatively small area, the ancient burial site of the Merotic Kingdom (sometimes known as the Kingdom of Kush). The Pyramids are smaller than their Egyptian cousins but equally impressive due to their number. The first of the Meroe Pyramids were built about 800 years after the last Egyptian pyramids were completed. The Meroe pyramids were constructed from large blocks of sandstone. They're angled more steeply than the Egyptian pyramids and the Egyptian influce is very clear and their artisans were used to build Meroe's pyramids. The pyramid's steep angles reflect the angle of the sun's rays on Earth. The tops of the pyramids were blown off by an Italian explorer looking for hiddden treasures in the 1800s. Meroe complex Little is being done today to conserve or preserve the pyramids and they are mostly left to the elements. If you visit, have a look at the visitor's book the keeper has and you will see the date of the last visitor to be probably quite long ago. There are no fences preventing entrance and no facilities of any kind, no toilet no shop and no souvenir trap. Just the pyramids and the orange dunes all to yourself, you are not going to see any other tourist even if you spend the whole day there. Meroe is a sudden illusion, a mirage in the middle of the dessert. When the pyramids appear from nowhere you will be forgibben for thinking the desert is playing a trick on you. The keeper's son in traditional Sudanese clothes We jumped off the car into the dunes and the keeper and his son come out to meet us and collect the visitor's permit. They will open the visitor's book, in Arabic, and write your details down. If you speak Arabic you may be allowed to pay a smalll fee to the keeper although officially you are not supposed to. Converse with them to find out more, they are super friendly and photogenic and a living example of Nubian features. If you are lucky enough to be staying around the area do not miss the sunrise or sunset, the sun and shades of orange of the dessert in that part of the worls are simply unimaginable in all hues from dark brown to light orange, the shadows of the pyramids creating beautiful postcards of what it might have been. Meroe is truly enchanting. Between two pyramids As you can see from the photos here is virtually no shade and the sun can be very strong so bring a hat and be prepared to walk on extremely hot sand with closed shoes. Do not wear flip flops or you'll burn your feet. Have you been to Meroe?

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Other remote factors are the regional election crisis in Western Nigeria in 1965; the Tiv riots of 1964; the Federal Elections of 1964; the killing of the Igbos living in Northern Nigeria from May to September 1966; the structural imbalance of the Nigerian federation; and, most importantly, the asymmetrical distribution of power among the various ethnic and geopolitical groups. The Biafra Army was led by Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, he was the mouth piece of the Igbo people. On May 30, 1967, he made a declaration of the State of Biafra, and this was the immediate factor responsible for the civil war. The intended aim of Ojukwu’s declaration was to effectively excise the Eastern part of Nigeria out of the Federation so as to create a Federation called “Biafra”, where its people can benefit greatly from its government. The Biafrans got the support of other countries such as Tanzania, Zambia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Haiti and Côte d’Ivoire, etc. and they campaign for her recognition in the international community and for the purchase of arms and equipment. The war lasted for 30 months and within March –October of 1968 over 6 states (Onitsha, Abakaliki, Port Harcourt, Aba, Owerri, Okigwe) which were important trade routes of the Biafra people were captured by the Federal Troops, and this caused famine and starvation among the Biafra people. This war ended in a way I will describe as “cowardly”, Biafran forces were finally routed in a series of engagements in late December 1969 and early January 1970. Realising that the situation was a hopeless one, Ojukwu handed over the administration of Biafra to the Commander of Biafran Army Maj. Gen. Phillip Effiong. He then fled with his immediate family to Côte d’Ivoire. Effiong consulted with the Biafra Strategic Committee on the situation and they decided that enough was enough and that the only honorable way out was to surrender. Biafra was more or less wiped off the map until its resurrection by the contemporary Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra . Like all civil wars, the Nigerian civil war was unique in the context of the nation’s history. This is because it was the most vivid expression of a country that turned against itself. As with civil wars in other countries, the Nigerian civil war can be analyzed within the context of a revolution. As a revolution, it is very unique in the context of Nigerian history; it is the only revolution that has ever occurred in Nigeria’s checkered existence. This war like any other war left significant legacies (both tangible and intangible) on the social-economic development of Nigeria, with it traces still present today and this includes: Destruction of infrastructures – such as oil refineries, hospitals, historical monuments (e.g. Niger bridge), etc. Furthermore, Igbo owned properties and houses were taken over by people from other regions and the Nigerian Government justified this by terming such properties as abandoned. Economical implications: Nigerian government policies disabled the Igbo’s long after the war, majority of the official position occupied by the Igbo’s where not reinstated, these individuals were considered to have resigned; also the Nigerian Government changed the Naira currency so that Biafran supplies of pre-war Naira currency were no longer honored. All this affected the economical status of the Igbo folks. Loss of lives – An estimated of 3 million people may have died due to hunger and disease caused by the blockade of trade route strategically done by the Nigerian forces. International Stigmatization: The Nigeria Civil War created a lens with which the international community use in defining who Africans are, and till today Africa as a continent is still viewed that way. The pogrom and the war more than anything else have come to define Nigeria as a land of monumental injustice and impunity. Cultural Damages: Even till today there are still traves of the effect of the Biafra War, the war destroyed the seed with which a united Nigeria would have grown. It instigated an unhealthy generational bitterness and caused severe damage to the beauty of our diverse socio-cultural make up, thereby defeating the purpose to which we were united, that even till today the nation is yet to recover. 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