Word: sadiq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus calmly and apparently bloodlessly, the three-year-old civilian government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi was toppled late last week. Although the timing was unexpected, the coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy...
...situation in Sudan get worse? Last week it did, as workers staged a general strike that closed the airport in Khartoum and shut down most telephone and telex lines. Rumors of coup attempts swept the capital as angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding the head of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi...
...week's end, as police scattering crowds killed at least one demonstrator, the government backed down and revoked the price increases while leaving the pay hikes intact. The swift reversal does not ensure a return to relative stability. The Democratic Unionist Party withdrew from Sadiq's coalition government, and the Prime Minister reportedly intends to form a new Cabinet with his other partner, the Muslim fundamentalist National Islamic Front...
Last month the government recaptured Kabo. Its troops burned the village to the ground. U.S. congressional staffers who visited Sudan returned convinced that the government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi bears at least equal responsibility for the starvation. Declared one: "The conduct of the government borders on criminal neglect and a de facto policy of exterminating the southerners...
Little emergency food is reaching the afflicted. Khartoum supplies its troops at Juba with three food-and-arms flights a day. But not one sack of maize goes to civilians. Northern traders collude with the army to hoard food, then sell it at skyrocketing prices. Last month Prime Minister Sadiq ordered a UNICEF representative to cease shipments of food and medicine to the south. "You are feeding the people who kill my soldiers," he said coldly...