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...took seven years, but last week Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub was finally sworn in as the Sudan's Prime Minister. Back in 1958, the conservative coalition parties, Umma and National Union, had just agreed privately to name Mahgoub Prime Minister when General Ibrahim Abboud staged his takeover, and instead of heading a Cabinet, Mahgoub spent seven months in jail...
...Sudan could use a new Messiah. Dictator Ibrahim Abboud, the army general who grabbed power in 1958, was overthrown last fall, and Interim Prime Minister Serr el Khatim el Khalifa has been hard put to hold the country together. The Negro south, long restive, went into open rebellion against Arab rule, and its demands for independence forced Khalifa to go ahead with the balloting only in the northern two-thirds of the nation. A leftist minority within his own Cabinet tried to sabotage the elections altogether and seize power for itself. Under heavy leftist pressure, Khalifa turned the nation into...
...political parties, the Sudanese arose barehanded and, in a week of bloodshed, drove the military back to their barracks. By the time it was all over, at least 30 Sudanese had lost their lives and parliamentary rule was restored. Only one vestige remained from the old Abboud regime: the portly, dusky figure of Ibrahim Abboud, 64, who stayed on as President, though shorn of effective power...
Savage Reprisals. Paradoxically, it was Abboud's first experiment with democracy that led to his downfall. Since the days of the ancient Arab slave traders, the Sudan has been split into two inherently hostile ethnic and religious groups: the sophisticated, dominant Arabs of the Moslem north, 9,000,000 strong; and, south of the 12th parallel, some 4,000,000 backward Negro tribesmen without a political voice. Abboud met frequent black incursions with stern, often savage military reprisals that only fed the flames...
Last month, as rebellion flared through the three Negro provinces, Abboud reached a curious decision. Without calling off his troops, he created a special commission to listen to the rebels' grievances; then, for good measure, he encouraged press and public alike to debate the Sudan's southern problem. The free discussion touched off a student riot, which started the revolution, which restored' democratic rule to the Sudan. The nation may not, in fact, be ready yet for Western-style democracy. The obvious alternative is Ibrahim Abboud...