Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan

In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa''s biggest country. Sudan''s revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new politics, economic liberalisation, an Islamic revival, and a U-turn in foreign relations - and mixed militant conservatism with social engineering: a vision of authoritarian modernisation. Water and agricu...