Africa Notes: An Interim Report on Sudan's New Regime - July 1989

In the early morning hours of June 30, 1989, a military coup led by Staff Brigadier General (now Lieutenant General) Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir terminated one of Africa's few multiparty parliamentary governments. One month after the coup, the following tentative appraisal can be made of the new regime in Africa's largest country.

Nabil S. Mikhail