Jafar an Numairi
Jafar Muhammad an-Numairi ( Arabic جعفر محمد النميري, DMG Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad an-Numayrī ; * January 1, 1930 in Omdurman ; † May 30, 2009 in Khartoum ) was Prime Minister 1970/71 and President of Sudan from 1971 to 1985 .
An-Numairi was the son of a postman and great-grandson of the chief of the Wad Numairi region in Dungula . In 1952 he graduated from the Sudanese military college , where he was strongly influenced by the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser's movement of free officers , founded in 1949, which came to power in a coup in Egypt in July 1952 . In 1966 he joined the United States Army Command College in Fort Leavenworth ( Kansas ab). Three years later he helped lead a military coup against the civilian government of Ismail al-Azhari and subsequently appointed himself Prime Minister of Sudan. He used his position to carry out some socialist and pan-Arab reforms.
After surviving an attempted coup by Sadiq al-Mahdi the previous year , an-Numairi was initially ousted from power by a communist coup in 1971 by Hashim al-Atta, Babiker an-Nur Osman and Faruk Osman Hamdallah, but shortly afterwards again in office used. He was elected president later that year. In 1972 he succeeded in ending a 17-year civil war between the north and south of the country with the Addis Ababa Agreement .
In March 1980, an-Numairi also survived a coup attempt by five army officers who were arrested. He then accused the Soviet Union and Syria of supporting the coup and from June offered the US the use of military facilities in Sudan. On June 26, 1980, diplomatic relations with Libya were broken off .
In 1981 he began a dramatic transformation into an Islamist government. In September 1983 he signed a law introducing Sharia law across the country. The dissolution of the South Sudanese government, which was a clear violation of the Addis Ababa Accords, caused civil war to flare up again. In 1985, he approved the execution of the peaceful political dissident and Muslim reformer Mahmud Muhammad Taha , who was first charged with religious insurrection in the 1960s during the Ismail al-Azhari government , and declared him an apostate . A little later, an-Numairi was deposed in a military coup.
He lived in exile in Egypt from 1985 to 1999 and then returned to Sudan. Most recently he was a member of the National Congress Party .
In 1970 he was awarded the Gold Star of Friendship of Nations in the GDR .
Web links
- Lawrence Joffe: Jaafar Nimeiri - Sudanese president who confirmed his land as 'Africa's most dysfunctional country' . The Guardian , June 5, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Former Sudan leader Nimeiri dies . bbc.co.uk , May 30, 2009
- ↑ Order “Star of Friendship between Nations” for Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri . In: Neues Deutschland July 2, 1970, p. 2
Ismail al-Azhari | Abdullah Chalil | Ibrahim Abbud | al-Khatim al-Khalifa | Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub | Sadiq al-Mahdi | Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub | Babiker Awadalla | Jafar an-Numairi | Raschid Bakr | Jafar an-Numairi | Al-Jazuli Dafallah | Sadiq al-Mahdi | Bakri Hassan Saleh | Moutaz Mousa Abdallah | Mohamed Tahir Ayala | Abdalla Hamdok
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| SURNAME | Numairi, Jafar an- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Numeiri, Jafar Muhammad al-; Nimeiry, Jaafar al-; Nimairy, Gaafar al |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sudanese politician, President of Sudan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Omdurman , Sudan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 2009 |
| Place of death | Khartoum |