Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry (otherwise spelled in English as Gaafar Nimeiry, Jaafar Nimeiry, or Ja'far Muhammad Numayri; Arabic: جعفر محمد النميري; 1 January...

the Nimeiry era, also called the May Regime, in the history of Sudan. At the conspiracy's core were nine officers led by Colonel Gaafar Nimeiry, who...

contested two parliamentary elections in the 1960s. In 1971, President Gaafar Nimeiry launched a wave of repression against the party after a failed coup...

sole legal party from 1971 until 1985, when the regime of President Gaafar Nimeiry was overthrown in a military coup. Today the Sudanese Socialist Democratic...

declared an independent state. After Sudan became independent, the Gaafar Nimeiry regime began Islamist rule. This exacerbated the rift between the Islamic...

Swar al-Dahab, against the government of President Gaafar Nimeiry. In 1983, President Gaafar Nimeiry declared all Sudan an Islamic state under Sharia law...

carried out a coup two years prior, against the government of President Gaafar Nimeiry. The coup took place on 19 July 1971, toppling the government of the...

apostasy for his religious preaching at the age of 76 by the regime of Gaafar Nimeiry. Taha was born in Rufaa, a town on the eastern bank of the Blue Nile...

and as Head of State of Sudan from 1965 until he was overthrown by Gaafar Nimeiry in 1969. He was president of the National Unionist Party (now the Democratic...

In early 1972, Gaafar Nimeiry visited Saudi Arabia and engaged in dialogue with Sharif Hussein al-Hindi, the opposition leader, at the request of King...

In September 1983, Sudanese president Gaafar Nimeiry introduced Islamic Sharia laws in Sudan, known as September Laws (Arabic: قوانين سبتمبر, romanized: Qawānīn...

Hassan al-Bakr, Faisal I of Iraq, Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Gaafar Nimeiry and Anwar Sadat. In the 2004 Arab League summit in Cairo, Yemeni President...

escape from Sudan to Ethiopia following the bombing of Aba Island by Gaafar Nimeiry. Voll, John Obert; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn; Lobban, Richard (2013). Historical...

The 1969 Sudanese coup d'état was a successful coup, led by Colonel Gaafar Nimeiry, against the government of President Ismail al-Azhari. The coup signaled...

afflicting the country. After a second military coup on 25 May 1969, Colonel Gaafar Nimeiry became Prime Minister and promptly outlawed political parties. Also...

participating in the 1985 Sudanese coup d'état that deposed the government of Gaafar Nimeiry, he joined the military government of Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab as...

States, Egypt, and Jordan. He became a prominent figure when President Gaafar Nimeiry appointed him Chief of Staff, and then Minister of Defence and general...

years from Sudan's independence in 1956 to the 1969 military coup of Gaafar Nimeiry, Sudan used a tricolour flag of blue-yellow-green. According to World...

a national level. After a military coup in 1969, Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry abolished all other political parties, effectively dissolving the Islamic...

Tehran after Islambouli. President Siad Barre of Somalia and President Gaafar Nimeiry of Sudan, along with deposed Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, were...

Organization in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was briefly government minister Gaafar Nimeiry (1930-2009), President of Sudan Xhafer Bej Ypi (1880–1940), Albanian...

informational policies, and economic development before and during Gaafar Nimeiry's era. He also notably resigned in protest against the imposition of...

abolished on 5 June 1983 by the administration of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry. Revocation of southern autonomy was one of the causes of the Second...

Awadalla, a lawyer, served as Premier, but was then moved by Maj-Gen Gaafar Nimeiry to become deputy chair of the council on 26 November 1969. Joseph Garang...

established the National Revolutionary Command Council, chaired by Jaafar Nimeiry. Nimeiry, the leader of the newly formed Sudanese Socialist Union, assumed the...

Communist Party until his death by execution in Khartum during the Gaafar Nimeiry regime. Following his execution Muhammad Ibrahim Nugud became the leader...

seats, of which 138 were elected and 13 were appointed by President Gaafar Nimeiry. At the time, the Sudanese Socialist Union was the sole legal party...

the second civil war. The first violations occurred when President Gaafar Nimeiry attempted to take control of oil fields straddling the north–south border...

Minister Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab seized power from Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry in the 1985 Sudanese coup d'état. Not long after, Lieutenant General...

abandonment of the Addis Ababa Agreement signed between the government of Gaafar Nimeiry and the Anyanya leader Joseph Lagu, who had first introduced the southern...