Sudan, 2004 — rebel coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 25 September 2004, corresponding to the second of the two 2004 coup attempts against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan. In March 2004 the government said it had foiled a coup attempt against Bashir and his cabinet, inspired by opposition leaders and the Islamist ideologue Hassan al-Turabi, and detained al-Turabi along with members of his Popular Congress party and some military officers; al-Turabi, once Bashir's ally and the alleged architect of the 1989 coup but purged from power in 1999, was held from March 2004 until July 2005. A second attempted coup was staged in September 2004.
These events unfolded against the backdrop of the escalating Darfur crisis, which the United States that same month described as genocide, and the tail end of Sudan's long civil war. The 25 September 2004 coding matches this second, September 2004 coup attempt, part of the recurring opposition and Islamist-linked plotting against Bashir's National Congress Party regime.
Researched Details
Researched
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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
62509252004
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Bashir put down both 2004 attempts and detained Turabi, ruling until 2019.
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
Irish Examiner
Globe and Mail
Irish Times
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