Sudan African National Union الاتحاد الوطني الأفريقي السوداني | |
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| Leader | Toby Maduot |
| President | Joseph Oduho |
| General Secretary | William Deng Nhial |
| Founded | February 1962[1] |
| Headquarters | Kinshasa (1962-1963) Kampala (from 1963) |
| Armed wing | Anyanya |
| Ideology | African nationalism South Sudanese nationalism |
| National Legislative Assembly | 4 / 550
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The Sudan African National Union (Juba Arabic: الاتحاد الوطني الأفريقي السوداني Ettihad Al-Wataniy Al-Afriqiy Al-Sudani; SANU) is a political party formed in 1963 by Saturnino Ohure and William Deng Nhial in Uganda. In the late 1960s, the party contested elections in Sudan seeking autonomy for southern Sudan within a federal structure. The exile branch of the party meanwhile supported full independence.[clarification needed] A party with this name was represented in the Southern Sudan legislature in 2008.