Sudan, 1973 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 26 January 1973, during a period of unsuccessful coup plotting against President Gaafar Nimeiry of Sudan. After surviving the July 1971 communist-backed coup by Major Hashem al-Atta and the swift counter-coup that restored him, Nimeiry had crushed the Sudanese Communist Party, executed the plot's leaders, and shifted Sudan away from the Soviet Union. He then moved to institutionalize his rule, creating a Constituent Assembly in August 1972 and preparing a permanent constitution, promulgated in May 1973, that made the Sudanese Socialist Union the sole legal party.
Discontent nonetheless simmered over food shortages, the increased military role in government, and above all the March 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement ending the southern civil war, which many Muslim conservatives regarded as a surrender. In 1973 and 1974 there were unsuccessful coup attempts against Nimeiry. The January 1973 coding sits in this period of early-1973 conspiracy against the May Regime.
Researched Details
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
62501261973
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Nimeiry survived the 1973 plotting and consolidated one-party rule; he governed until 1985.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. 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
Wikipedia
Washington Post
Irish Times
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