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A coup d'état was carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces on 30 June 1989 against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. The coup was led by military officer Omar al-Bashir who took power in its aftermath; he ruled the country for the next 30 years until he was overthrown in 2019.
Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has witnessed a protracted series of coups d'état, totalling 20 coup attempts, of which 7 were successful, [1] [note 1] which places Sudan as the African nation with the most coup attempts [2] and it ranks second globally, just behind Bolivia, which has recorded 23 coup attempts since 1950. [3]
Al-Bashir with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Tehran, 31 August 2012 Al-Bashir and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Sochi on 27 November 2017. Al-Bashir said that Sudan is not a party to the ICC treaty and could not be expected to abide by its provisions just like the United States, China and Russia.
A year later in 2012 during the Heglig Crisis Sudan would achieve victory against South Sudan, a war over oil-rich regions between South Sudan's Unity and Sudan's South Kordofan states. The events would later be known as the Sudanese Intifada , which would end only in 2013 after al-Bashir promised he would not seek re-election in 2015.
A plane downed in Sudan's North Darfur state had Russian crew members and was being used by the army to resupply the besieged city of al-Fashir, according to the opposing faction and documents it ...
Somalia has been in a constant state of civil war ever since. Sudan – The 1985 Sudanese coup d'état overthrows the Democratic Republic of the Sudan. After a brief period of parliamentary democracy during the late 1980s, the 1989 Sudanese coup d'état establishes a right-wing dictatorship under Omar al-Bashir.
Little sign of compromise between warring factions as foreign governments race to shutter embassies and evacuate diplomats and citizens with violence intensifying
Pages in category "Military coups in Sudan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... 1985 Sudanese coup d'état; 1989 Sudanese coup d'état;