Anyanya

Anyanya
Anyanya
	The Anyanya flag: Red was for the blood spilled in the war; green for the land; white for hope of peace; black for Africa. The buffalo symbolized strength. Variant versions had a buffalo, a snake, and arrow poison in the center, or had no emblem at all.
Founders	Joseph Oduho; Joseph Lagu; George Akumbek; Julius Moroga; Severino Fuli
Leaders	Aggrey Jaden; Gordon Muortat Mayen; Joseph Lagu
Dates of operation	19 August 1963–1972
Headquarters	Kampala
Active regions	South Sudan
Ideology	Southern Sudanese separatism
Size	5,000–10,000
Allies	South Sudan Liberation Movement
Opponents	Sudan People's Armed Forces
	Succeeded by; Anyanya II (unofficial)

The Anyanya (also spelled Anya-Nya) were a southern Sudanese separatist rebel army formed during the First Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972). A separate movement that rose during the Second Sudanese Civil War were, in turn, called Anyanya II. Anyanya means "snake venom" in the Ma'di language.^[4]

^ Martell 2018, p. 75.
^ Cite error: The named reference tribune was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Sudan – First Civil War (globalsecurity.org)
^ Wells, Victor C. and Samuel P. Dilla, December 1993, "Colonization, Arabization, Slavery, and War, and War Against Indigenous Peoples of Southern Sudan Archived February 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" Fourth World Bulletin, Vol.3, No.1

Anyanya
The Anyanya flag: Red was for the blood spilled in the war; green for the land; white for hope of peace; black for Africa. The buffalo symbolized strength. Variant versions had a buffalo, a snake, and arrow poison in the center,^[1] or had no emblem at all.^[2]
Founders	Joseph Oduho Joseph Lagu George Akumbek Julius Moroga Severino Fuli
Leaders	Aggrey Jaden Gordon Muortat Mayen Joseph Lagu
Dates of operation	19 August 1963–1972
Headquarters	Kampala
Active regions	South Sudan
Ideology	Southern Sudanese separatism
Size	5,000–10,000^[3]
Allies	South Sudan Liberation Movement
Opponents	Sudan People's Armed Forces
Succeeded by Anyanya II (unofficial)