Sudan, 2012 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 22 November 2012, corresponding to the 2012 Sudanese coup attempt against President Omar al-Bashir. On Thursday 22 November 2012 the government arrested some thirteen to fourteen people over an alleged plot to overthrow the government, which the National Intelligence and Security Service said it had pre-emptively foiled at the zero hour. Among those detained were high-ranking military and security officers, most prominently Major General Salah Abdullah Mohammed, widely known as Salah Gosh, who had headed the intelligence service from 2002 to 2009 before being sacked as security adviser in April 2011 after becoming critical of the regime, and Brigadier General Mohamed Ibrahim, known as Wad Ibrahim, a former chief of Bashir's presidential security.
Gosh's parliamentary immunity was lifted the next day and he was stripped of his ruling-party titles. The alleged plot came amid a deepening economic crisis following South Sudan's 2011 independence and the loss of oil revenue, wrangling within the military, and growing Islamist dissent inside the ruling National Congress Party. The 22 November 2012 coding matches the arrests.
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
62511222012
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Bashir's security service arrested the alleged plotters, including ex-spy chief Salah Gosh.
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
Powell and Thyne
The Times
The Herald
The Daily Telegraph
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 →