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Republic of Sudan (1985–2019)
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This article covers the period of the history of Sudan between 1985 and 2019 when the Sudanese Defense 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 Omar al-Bashir, backed by an Islamist political party, the National Islamic Front, overthrew the short lived government in a coup in 1989 where he ruled as President until his fall in April 2019. During Bashir's rule, also referred to as Bashirist Sudan, or as they called themselves the al-Ingaz regime, he was re-elected three times while overseeing the independence of South Sudan in 2011. His regime was criticized for human rights abuses, atrocities and genocide in Darfur and allegations of harboring and supporting terrorist groups (most notably during the residency of Osama bin Laden from 1992 to 1996) in the region while being subjected to United Nations sanctions beginning in 1995, resulting in Sudan's isolation as an international pariah.
Republic of the Sudan | |||||||||||
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1985–2019 | |||||||||||
![]() Map of Sudan before South Sudanese independence on July 9, 2011 | |||||||||||
Capital and largest city | Khartoum 15°38′N 032°32′E | ||||||||||
Official languages |
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Ethnic groups | |||||||||||
Religion | Islam (official) | ||||||||||
Demonym(s) | Sudanese | ||||||||||
Government | Unitary provisional government under a military junta (1985–1986) Unitary parliamentary republic (1986–1989) Unitary one party Islamic Republic (1989–1998)
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President | |||||||||||
• 1985–1986 | Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab | ||||||||||
• 1986–1989 | Ahmed al-Mirghani | ||||||||||
• 1989–2019 | Omar al-Bashir | ||||||||||
Prime minister | |||||||||||
• 1985–1986 | Al-Jazuli Daf'allah | ||||||||||
• 1986–1989 | Sadiq al-Mahdi | ||||||||||
• 1989–2017 | Post abolished | ||||||||||
• 2017–2018 | Bakri Hassan Saleh | ||||||||||
• 2018–2019 | Motazz Moussa | ||||||||||
• 2019 | Mohamed Tahir Ayala | ||||||||||
Legislature | National Legislature | ||||||||||
Council of States | |||||||||||
National Assembly | |||||||||||
Historical era | Cold War, War on Terror | ||||||||||
6 April 1985 | |||||||||||
April 1986 | |||||||||||
30 June 1989 | |||||||||||
23 April 1990 | |||||||||||
27 May 1998 | |||||||||||
9 January 2005 | |||||||||||
January 2011 | |||||||||||
2018–2019 | |||||||||||
11 April 2019 | |||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
1985 | 2,530,397 km2 (976,992 sq mi) | ||||||||||
2011 | 1,886,086 km2 (728,222 sq mi) | ||||||||||
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