Gaafar Nimeiry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sudanese President
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Place of Birth: Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan
About Gaafar Nimeiry
- Jaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry (otherwise spelled in English as Jaafar Nimeiry, Jaafar Nimeiry or Ja'far Muhammad Numayri; Arabic: ???? ???? ??????; 26 April 1930 – 30 May 2009) was the President of Sudan from 1969 to 1985. A military officer, he came to power after a military coup in 1969.
- With his party, the Sudanese Socialist Union, he initially pursued socialist and Pan-Arabist policies.
- In 1972 he signed the Addis Ababa Agreement, ending the First Sudanese Civil War.
- He later became an ally of the United States.
- In the late 1970s he moved towards Islamism, and in 1983 he imposed Sharia law throughout the country, precipitating the Second Sudanese Civil War.
- He was ousted from power in 1985 and went into exile in Egypt.
- He returned in 1999 and ran in the Presidential elections in 2000, but did poorly.
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