Sudan, 1959 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
The dataset records an attempted military coup in Sudan on 9 November 1959, during the military government of General Ibrahim Abboud, who had taken power in a bloodless coup in November 1958, the first military regime of independent Sudan. Abboud's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ruled by decree, banned political parties, and pursued Arabization and Islamization policies in the south that deepened the conflict begun with the 1955 Torit mutiny. His regime was not monolithic, and rival officers who felt sidelined mounted several coup attempts against him in its first years.
A significant plot in 1959 by dissident officers was suppressed and its leaders court-martialed. Any coup attempt in November 1959 came within that factional turbulence and did not topple Abboud, who ruled until he was forced from power by the civilian October Revolution of 1964.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
62511091959- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-625-1959-11-09-3
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: General Ibrahim Abboud survived the attempt and ruled Sudan until the October Revolution of 1964.
Baseline coding: Coup attempt failed to remove the incumbent. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
New York Times
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →