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NewsClick
February 28, 2018
Sudan's streets were flooded with the wave of unrest that crested in 2011 across the Arabic speaking world. In 2013, again, a major protest took hold of Sudan. This was the largest protest since the military coup in 1989. Inflation drove people to the streets, with the Communist Party of Sudan as one of theÃâà...
The New Arab
February 27, 2018
The two join together at Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, with the former supplying 90 percent of the total volume of water. ... In 1959, Egypt had 35 million inhabitants, Sudan 11 million and Ethiopia 27 million. .... On 30 June 1989, a coup in Khartoum brought Omar al-Bashir and his Islamists to power.
News24
February 19, 2018
"But we are still not fully free because several of our colleagues are still detained," said Al-Sidiq Al-Sadiq, son of former premier Sadiq al-Mahdi, whose government was ousted by Bashir in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989. "The conditions that took us to jail have still not changed. There are still some lawsÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 16, 2018
Reports suggest he was the senior intelligence officer responsible for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden when he was in Sudan until 1996. In 2000, he helped crush dissidents who had split from the Sudanese Islamic movement, which had backed the 1989 coup by Bashir. He was the manager ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 14, 2018
Coupled with current popular protests over the 2018 austerity budget that are gathering momentum across Sudan, these factors create the conditions that will result in one of two scenarios in Sudan: either swift and meaningful change, or descent into chaos and disintegration. Without meaningful domesticÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 14, 2018
Coupled with current popular protests over the 2018 austerity budget that are gathering momentum across Sudan, these factors create the conditions that will result in one of two scenarios in Sudan: either swift and meaningful change, or descent into chaos and disintegration. Without meaningful domesticÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 12, 2018
The new appointment of Sudan's intelligence chief Salah Abdallah Gosh may bring a paradigm shift in Khartoum's foreign policy. ... the Brotherhood movement in Sudan until the 1989 Islamist coup before being appointed as an intelligence officer in the National Intelligence and Security Services in Sudan.
Al-Arabiya
February 12, 2018
The new appointment of Sudan's intelligence chief Salah Abdallah Gosh may bring a paradigm shift in Khartoum's foreign policy. ... the Brotherhood movement in Sudan until the 1989 Islamist coup before being appointed as an intelligence officer in the National Intelligence and Security Services in Sudan.
Independent Online
February 11, 2018
Salih, who studied engineering, has worked on and off for NISS since the 1989 coup that brought Bashir to power, according to Sudanese media. As its chief, he is credited with building NISS into one of the most powerful security agencies of Bashir's regime. But in 2009 he was removed as NISS chief.
Green Left Weekly
February 7, 2018
With economic problems in Sudan deepening, there is a strong fear the government will become more ruthless in its crackdown against dissent. Since al-Bashir came to power in a 1989 coup, Sudan has been involved in near perpetual internal conflict, specifically with what is now-South Sudan and Darfur.
africanews
February 3, 2018
Umma party is headed by former premier Sadiq al-Mahdi, whose civilian government was overthrown in the 1989 Islamist-backed coup that brought President Omar al-Bashir to power. Nasir, a retired major general and former armed forces chief of staff, was the defence minister in Mahdi's government.
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
In the Sudan, Omar-al-Bashir has been in power for 29 years having come to power in a coup in June 1989. Issaias Afewerki has been Eritrea's President for 25 years. Barring a rebellion or death, he is unlikely to be leaving soon. He was first elected president - by the national assembly - in 1993 and sinceÃâà...
Okayafrica
December 31, 1999
Elbagir explores the changing atmosphere during that period, including the 80s and early 90s, the restrictions brought in after Sudan's 1989 coup, and digs into what music means in a country that's come up against famine, civil war and economic and political crisis. She looks to legendary musician Sharhabeel Ahmed, whoÃâà...
