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)
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.
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^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
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