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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Sudan
Index
Blue Nile at the border with Ethiopia
Courtesy Robert O. Collins
On May 25, 1969, several young officers, calling themselves
the Free Officers' Movement, seized power. At the conspiracy's
core were nine officers led by Colonel Jaafar an Nimeiri, who had
been implicated in plots against the Abbud regime. Nimeiri's coup
preempted plots by other groups, most of which involved army
factions supported by the SCP, Arab nationalists, or conservative
religious groups. He justified the coup on the grounds that
civilian politicians had paralyzed the decision-making process,
had failed to deal with the country's economic and regional
problems, and had left Sudan without a permanent constitution.
Data as of June 1991
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