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President al-Bashir's government was dominated by members of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), a fundamentalist political organization formed from the Muslim Brotherhood in 1986. In 1998, the NIF founded the National Congress Party (NCP) as its legal front. the NCP/NIF dominates much of Khartoum's overall domestic and foreign policies ...
[19] [20] His political rival was Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit, current leader of the SPLA. [21] [22] In December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between President Omar al-Bashir and Hassan al-Turabi, NIF founder, Islamist ideologue and speaker of parliament. Al-Turabi was stripped of his posts in the ruling party and the government ...
Liberal Party of Sudan (Al-Hizb Al-Librali) Binaa Sudan Party (Hizb Binaa Al Sudan) Liberal Democrats (Hizb Al-Demokhrateen Al-Ahrar) Nubian Front of Liberation (Jabhat al-Tahrir al-Nuwbia) National Democratic Alliance [4] Sudan National Alliance ; The National Reform Party ; Sudanese Unity National Party (S.U.N. PARTY) Islamic Socialist Party
The move deepens uncertainty around Sudan's political future and a transition towards elections since the 2019 downfall of long-serving ruler Omar al-Bashir. Hamdok had said he would only stay in ...
Differences in language, religion, and political power erupted in a civil war between government forces, influenced by the National Islamic Front (NIF), and the southern rebels, whose most influential faction was the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which eventually led to the independence of South Sudan in 2011. [32]
Six weeks after a coup d'etat in Sudan, high-profile military leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is evolving into an increasingly influential political force. The involvement of so powerful a ...
Prior to independence, Sudan was governed as a condominium by Egypt and the United Kingdom, under the name Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. As such, executive power was vested in a dyarchy consisting of both countries' heads of state – at the time of independence, the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II) and the Egyptian Revolutionary Command ...
Sudan was previously in a transitional period following the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on 9 January 2005 that officially ended the civil war between the Sudanese Government (based in Khartoum) and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) rebel group. The National Assembly consisted of 450 appointed ...