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- 1 2 3 ARR: Arab Report and Record. Economic Features, Limited. 1968. pp. 119, 144.
- 1 2 Timothy Niblock (25 November 1987). Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898–1985. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-349-08836-2.
- ↑ Inter-Parliamentary Union. Sudan
- ↑ Tareq Y. Ismael (22 December 2015). The Sudanese Communist Party: Ideology and Party Politics. Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-136-33102-2.
