Word: nimeiri
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President Gaafar Nimeiri was approaching Cairo International Airport, stopping over to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after a ten-day visit to the U.S., when he heard the news: the Sudanese armed forces, led by his closest associate, Commander in Chief General Abdul Rahman Suwar Al Dahab, had overthrown him. The coup climaxed a period of turmoil that had gripped Nimeiri's country for more than two weeks and escalated during his absence. A stocky, gray-haired soldier, Suwar Al Dahab, 51, announced that the army wanted to bring under control "the worsening situation in the country." The military...
...Police and troops used riot sticks, tear gas and, on occasion, gunfire to quell the disturbances. At least six people were killed, more than 2,000 arrested; several thousand people, mainly squatters and vagrants, were trucked out of the city. The violence erupted the day before Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri departed on a one-week visit to the U.S. that includes an April 1 meeting with President Reagan...
Western diplomats in Khartoum discounted government claims that the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood was involved in the riots; Nimeiri, wary of its growing power, had recently cracked down on that group. Instead, said one Western official, "people appeared to be venting their frustrations at recent price rises in gasoline and bread." The increases followed Nimeiri's decision to end subsidies on some basic commodities, part of an economic austerity plan demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Nimeiri is expected to cite last week's unrest in asking Reagan to ease U.S. demands for economic reforms and to release $181 million...
...exodus was cut short eleven weeks ago, when word of a secret Israeli airlift that had already taken thousands to Israel was leaked to the press. Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri slammed the door shut because of pressure from Ethiopia's Marxist government and fellow Arabs, who accused him of cooperating with the Israelis. That left hundreds of Ethiopian Jews, known as Falashas, stranded in Sudan after making the long trek to refugee camps there. Last week, however, in an operation coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency, about ten U.S. C-130 military transport planes flew into Sudan and took...
...Washington a State Department official declared, "We have an absolute no comment on that." U.S. officials feared that publicizing the airlift would undermine any attempts to rescue Falashas remaining in Sudan or Ethiopia. It has been reported that Vice President George Bush, during a recent visit to Khartoum, persuaded Nimeiri to let the Falashas...