Word: gaafar
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Further dispute erupted over Tanzania's invasion of neighboring Uganda, which overthrew the notorious regime of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. Sudan's President, Gaafar Nimeiri, led a prolonged attack against Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, accusing him of setting a dangerous precedent by "taking to the sword" to overthrow Amin. Uganda's new President, Godfrey Binaisa, won some sympathy and a few laughs with his assurances that Tanzanian troops had been warmly welcomed when they "liberated" Kampala. "Our girls made love to them," he said. "What further evidence of solidarity do you want?" But Binaisa followed Nyerere...
Sudan. The largest nation in Africa is linked to Egypt by a defense treaty, and the two countries have moved closer toward a political and economic confederation. President Gaafar Nimeiri endorsed Sadat's visit to Jerusalem and the Camp David accords, but that stand is not universally popular. Despite a policy of reconciliation aimed at ending the intrigues and coups that have plagued the Sudan since it became independent in 1956, Nimeiri still faces opposition from the National Front led by Anwar Sadiq al-Mahdi, who advocates an Islamic state like neighboring Libya. If Sadat were to fall from power...
While Egypt's President Anwar Sadat broke his homeward journey in Morocco to see one of his closest Arab allies, King Hassan II, and Jimmy Carter conferred with Sudanese President Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri, four hard-line Arab states and an assortment of Palestinian liberation groups assembled in Damascus for the third so-called Steadfast Summit. The theme: Fight Sadat?and topple him if possible...
...this year's session in Khartoum would be summitry on a $12 million shoestring. A few old streets had been resurfaced, and sessions would be held in Friendship Hall, a rather proletarian-looking convention center built two years ago by the Chinese. Despite the relative austerity. Sudanese President Gaafar Numeiri, the summit host and incoming OAU president, suggested in personal letters of invitation to each of his fellow 48 African leaders that this was a meeting they would not want to miss...