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.
[2] Saturnino Ohure and Joseph Oduho moved from Uganda to Kinshasa, Zaire, where they were joined by William Deng and founded the Sudan African Closed Districts National Union (SACDNU)[3] in 1962.
[5] In Kampala, SANU became the voice of the 60,000 refugees who had fled to camps in Zaire and Uganda, but was unable to establish a political presence in Sudan.
The SANU leaders did manage to organize a loose guerrilla movement, the Anyanya, which began operating in Equatoria in 1963, conducting isolated raids and largely remaining independent of the politicians in Kampala.
[7] Deng's wing of SANU and the Southern Front, a mass organization led by Stanislaus Paysama, contested the April 1965 parliamentary elections.