Sudan: 50 Years On - Remembering Sudan's October Revolution

20 October 2014
analysis

Many Sudanese intellectuals watched on with wry amusement as, in 2011, the global media announced that the popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya were the first civilian movements to overthrow military autocracies in the Arab world.

Sudan is often overlooked because of its status as a gateway between the Arab and African worlds, but it has already experienced two such events - the October Revolution of 1964, which overthrew the first military regime of Ibrahim Abboud and ushered in a four year period of parliamentary democracy, and the April Intifada of 1985, which overthrew Jafa'ar Nimeiri, the country's second military dictator.

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