Sovereignty Council (Sudan)

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The Supreme Sovereignty Council (English sovereignty council ; Arabic مجلس السيادة, DMG Maǧlis as-Siyāda ), and later Sovereignty Committee (Engl. Committee of Sovereignty ) or Supreme Staatsat (Engl. Supreme Council of State ), was that the five-member panel, which after independence Sudan as a collective 1,956 head of state acted. It existed until 1958 and again from 1964 to 1969.

Ex-Prime Minister Ismail al-Azhari was elected President of the Sovereignty Council in July 1965.

The sovereignty council formed in January 1956 from Abdel Fattah Muhammad al-Maghrabi, Muhammad Ahmad Yasin, Ahmad Muhammad Salih, Muhammad Othman al-Dardiri and Siricio Iro Wani was overthrown in November 1958 by the Ibrahim Abbuds military coup, abolished and by a Supreme Council the armed forces (Supreme Military Council) replaced.

The interim government formed after Abbud's fall in October 1964 under al-Chatim al-Chalifa announced a transitional constitution, restored the sovereignty council, which was abolished in 1958, and in December 1964 first swore in the four new council members Abdel (Abd al-) Halim Muhammad, Tijani al- Mahi (Tigani Elmahi), Mubarak Shaddad, Ibrahim Yusuf Sulayman; shortly afterwards Luigi Adwok (Adok) joined the group as a representative of South Sudan.

After Ibrahim Yusuf Sulayman's departure, a new sovereignty council was formed in June 1965 from Ismail al-Azhari , Abdel Halim Muhammad, Abdullah al-Fadil al-Mahdi, Luigi Adwok and Khidr (Khidir) Hamad. Philemon (Filmon) Majok and Abd ar-Rahman Abdun replaced Luigi Adwok, who also resigned in 1965 (or 1967?), And Abdullah al-Fadil al-Mahdi, who died in May 1966. Abdel Halim Muhammad was replaced by Daoud al-Khalifa (1967?).

In May 1968, the Sovereignty Council was reformed again and consisted from now on of Ismail al-Azhari, Khidr Hamad, Daoud al-Khalifa, Bushra Fadil al-Mahdi and Jarvis (Jervis, Jervase, Garfis) Yak. Originally the presidency of the council rotated weekly, in July 1965 al-Azhari was finally elected permanent chairman (president of the council) and re-elected in May 1968.

Although the Sovereignty Council actually only had representative tasks, it deposed the government in 1966 and 1967, banned the Sudanese Communist Party in 1967 against an express arbitration by the Supreme Court and dissolved the parliament (formed in May 1965) in February 1968 because it was its task to draw up a new constitution. A renewed military coup, Jafar an-Numairis, in May 1969 (his first attempted coup failed in December 1966) finally abolished the Sovereignty Council, an-Numairi first became chairman of a revolutionary command council, and from 1971 then president of Sudan (until 1985).

Composition of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council 1964–1969
1964 1965 1966 1968
Ibrahim Yusuf Sulayman Ismail al-Azhari Ismail al-Azhari Ismail al-Azhari
Abdel Halim Muhammad Abdel Halim Muhammad Abdel Halim Muhammad Daoud al-Khalifa
Mubarak Shaddad Khidr Hamad Khidr Hamad Khidr Hamad
Luigi Adwok Philemon Majok Philemon Majok Jarvis Yak
Tijani al-Mahi Abdullah al-Fadil al-Mahdi Abd ar-Rahman Abdun Bushra Fadil al-Mahdi

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Robert S. Kramer, Richard Andrew Lobban, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban: Historical Dictionary of the Sudan , pages 20, 37, 50 and 80. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham / Plymouth 2013
  2. ↑ www.presidency.gov.sd: The First Supreme Council of State 1956-1958
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rulers.org: The Sudan
  4. ↑ a b Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1964 , pages 582, 585 and 587. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1965
  5. ↑ www.presidency.gov.sd: The Second Supreme Council of State 1964-1965
  6. ↑ a b Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International WHO'S WHO of the Arab World , page 37. London 1984
  7. ↑ a b Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1965 , pages 486 and 490. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1966
  8. ↑ a b Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1967 , pages 500 and 502f. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1968
  9. ↑ a b Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1966 , pages 487 and 490. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1967
  10. ↑ www.presidency.gov.sd: The Third Supreme Council of State 1965-1967
  11. ↑ a b Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1968 , pages 469 and 472. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1969
  12. ↑ www.presidency.gov.sd: The Fourth Supreme Council of State 1967-1969
  13. ^ Gustav Fochler-Hauke : Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1969 , page 367. Fischer, Frankfurt (Main) 1968
  14. ^ Gustav Fochler-Hauke : Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1968 , page 372. Fischer, Frankfurt (Main) 1967

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