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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Sudan
Index
Somewhat more than half Sudan's population was Muslim in the
early 1990s. Most Muslims, perhaps 90 percent, lived in the
north, where they constituted 75 percent or more of the
population. Data on Christians was less reliable; estimates
ranged from 4 to 10 percent of the population. At least one-third
of the Sudanese were still attached to the indigenous religions
of their forebears. Most Christian Sudanese and adherents of
local religious systems lived in southern Sudan. Islam had made
inroads into the south, but more through the need to know Arabic
than a profound belief in the tenets of the Quran. The SPLM,
which in 1991 controlled most of southern Sudan, opposed the
imposition of the sharia (Islamic law).
Data as of June 1991
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