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

July 30, 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.