Gaafar Nimeiry

Politician

1930 – 2009

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Who was Gaafar Nimeiry?

Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry was the President of Sudan from 1969 to 1985.

A military officer, he came to power after a military coup in 1969. With his party, the Sudanese Socialist Union, he initially pursued socialist and Pan-Arabist policies. In 1972 he signed the Addis Ababa Agreement, ending the First Sudanese Civil War. He later became an ally of the United States. In the late 1970s he moved towards Islamism, and in 1983 he imposed Sharia law throughout the country, precipitating the Second Sudanese Civil War. He was ousted from power in 1985 and went to exile in Egypt. He returned in 1999 and ran in the Presidential elections in 2000, but did poorly.

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Born
Jan 1, 1930
Omdurman
Religion
  • Sunni Islam
Ethnicity
  • Nubian people
  • Sudanese Arabs
Died
May 30, 2009
Khartoum

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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