Sudan, 1990 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as an attempted military coup in Sudan on 23 April 1990 against the Islamist military regime of Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir, who had seized power in a June 1989 coup that overthrew the elected government and installed a dictatorship aligned with Hassan al-Turabi's National Islamic Front. In April 1990 a group of army officers, reportedly retired and serving loyalists of the ousted democratic order, mounted a coup attempt against Bashir's still consolidating regime. It was crushed, and Bashir's government responded with brutal swiftness: twenty eight officers were summarily tried and executed, a purge that shocked the army and signaled the regime's ruthlessness in stamping out internal opposition.
The failed coup helped Bashir and the National Islamic Front tighten their grip, purging the officer corps of suspected disloyalty and entrenching the Islamist security state. Bashir went on to rule Sudan for three decades, prosecuting devastating civil wars in the south and in Darfur, until he was himself finally overthrown in a popular uprising and military coup in 2019.
Researched Details
Researched
Independent research, added record by record. Hover any label for what it means.
Sources
Editorial Note
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
62504231990
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir crushed the April 1990 coup attempt and executed 28 officers.
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
Wall Street Journal
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 →