Saint Vincent

The 'Black Caribs' were a mix of native Carib people and West African slaves who escaped from Spanish shipwrecks and other slave islands. The Caribs aggressively managed to hold off European settlement of Saint Vincent until 1719. Some of the refugees were enslaved by the Caribs themselves, some became part of the community, some set up their own community. The First Carib War (1769-1773) saw initial success by the Black Caribs supported by the French. The British launch a full-scale attempt to subjugate the island, but it eventually resulted in a stalemate. The Second Carib War (1795-1797) again pitted the British against a coalition of runaway slaves, Black Caribs, and French Revolutionary advisers (The French had briefly taken control during the American Revolutionary Wars). Again initial success was met with a major intervention. The defeated natives were deported to the island of Roatán (65 kilometres off the coast of modern-day Honduras). 

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Sudan

Sudan was home to many kingdoms and empires which flourished along the Nile river. The Nubian Kingdoms can be traced from at least 2000 BC. A neighbour of Egypt and across the Red Sea from Mecca, Sudan was Christianized by the 6th century and Islamized by the 15th century. It was part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1899 until independence in 1956. Sudan was the largest country in Africa and the Arab World until 2011. A split with South Sudan (following a war which ended in 2005) has made it smaller than Algeria, the DR Congo and Saudi Arabia. Civil War continues to rage in the Southern neighbour which won its freedom. One of a reducing number of countries where our historical plague of war persists. Omar al-Bashir, in power since 1989, became the first sitting president to be indicted by the International Criminal Court.

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