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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]
The Ansar–Khatmiyya rivalry, [1] [2] [3] also known as al-Mahdi and al-Mirghani rivalry or the Two Sayyids rivalry, [4] was a sectarian division in Sudan that shaped the country's political landscape after the end of the Mahdist State in 1899 and until the Kizan era in 1989.
The Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation (RCCNS-Sudan) was the governing body of Sudan following the June 1989 coup. [1] It grew out of the collaboration between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the National Islamic Front. [2] It was the authority by which the military government of Sudan under Lt. Gen. Omar al-Bashir exercised power.
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir [a] (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. [2]
Soldiers arrested most of the members of the North African nation's cabinet on Monday in what the information ministry called a military coup, prompting opponents of the takeover to take to the ...
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;
People were seen on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital city, on October 25, amid what the country’s information ministry described as a “military coup”.Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok ...