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Sudan Tribune
February 13, 2018
Sudan's president from 1969 to 1985 was known as “Sartana”, the hero of a series of Italian-made Westerns, dismissively known as spaghetti ... His demotion from spy chief to presidential advisor for security affairs and eventually his public humiliation as coup plot suspect and inmate was in part the productÃâà...
Big Think (blog)
February 11, 2018
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan, has ruled for 28 years. Becoming President in 1989 as a result of a military coup, which ousted a democratically-elected government, al-Bashir has been accused of major corruption during his tenure, looting the wealth of his country. US diplomatic cablesÃâà...
Citizen
February 7, 2018
More than 300 child soldiers have been released in South Sudan's war-torn region of Yambio under a programme to help reintegrate them into ... But little more than two years later, conflict erupted again when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy and political rival Riek Machar of planning a coup.
Citizen
February 6, 2018
But little more than two years later, conflict erupted again when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy and political rival Riek Machar of planning a coup. As the violence rapidly spread among the ethnically diverse nation, the UN opened its gates to take in thousands of terrified civilians, frightenedÃâà...
The Week UK
January 8, 2018
Bashir, who has been in power since 1989 following a military coup, is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Some of the asylum seekers sent back to his country were subsequently tortured, says The Washington Post. Francken is a leadingÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
December 18, 2017
In 1985, Gajaak Nuer were mass massacred by the Sudan People Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) led late Colonel Dr John Garang de Mabior. Thousands of Gajaak Nuer civilians were killed following a similar merciless lust to kill or taking a human life at will without any ground as in 2013.
Breaking Defense
November 15, 2017
I miss the massive adrenaline rush of covering a coup, having had the raw luck of being on the ground to cover the toppling of Jaafar Nimeiri in Sudan and Milton ... I reported for the Voice of America, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Christian Science Monitor from Nairobi from early 1985 until I wasÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
October 26, 2017
The corruption of those regional leaders resulted in their collaboration with President Salva Kiir and Taban Deng Gai against the interested of the south Sudanese for peace, justices and democracy and in this regards, the July 2016 coup staged against the person of Dr Riek Machar is contrived of Salva KiirÃâà...
The Nation.
August 11, 2017
However, in an investigation published earlier this year, Lauren Chadwick of the Center for Public Integrity found that, according to official US government documents, at least 17 high-ranking foreigners—including five generals—trained through IMET between 1985 and 2010 were later accused and inÃâà...
DAWN.com (blog)
June 30, 2017
The coup was pulled off by officers affiliated with right-wing quasi-Islamic groups, the Ansar and the Khatimiyya (a Sufi order in Sudan). But the political .... In 1985, as protests against the regime grew and became violent, Nimeiry flew out to the US for a meeting with his main supporter, President Reagan.
Sudan Tribune
July 23, 2016
Ironically, the regime of Marshall Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry the President of Sudan from 1969 to 1985 has changed his socialist ideology after the failed military coup attempt of Hashem al- Atta, proclaimed himself Imam of the Muslims, brought in the National Islamic Front (NIF) as his ally, and issuedÃâà...
The Guardian
December 7, 2014
Sudan gains independence from British and Egyptian rule, forming one united country despite a civil war between north and south that began in 1955 and continues for 17 years. Here ... The military overthrows the government in a bloodless coup, and promises reforms that fail to materialise. Military chiefÃâà...
