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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 19 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 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.
Military forces arrested Sudan's acting prime minister and other senior officials and disrupted internet access Monday in an apparent coup as the country was nearing a planned transition to a ...
1989 Sudanese coup d'état; 2019 Sudanese coup d'état; 2021 Sudanese coup d'état This page was last edited on 9 September 2023, at 16:52 (UTC). ...
Now it has been the turn of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to be ousted by the military that had kept him in power for almost 3 decades. COLUMN-What Sudan tells us about 21st century coups ...
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 ...
The Chadian-Sudanese conflict officially started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against Rally for Democracy and Liberty (RDL) militants (Chadian rebels backed by the Sudanese government) and Sudanese militiamen who attacked villages ...