- Title: SUDAN: COUP FOILED - TROOPS OUT IN FORCE
- Date: 28th December 1966
- Summary: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, POLICE ON GUARD, ASSEMBLY MEMBERS WITH PRIME MINISTER, PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS AT RULING UMMA PARTY RALLY. Initials JRG/VS/CR/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th January 1967 12:00
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- Location: KHARTOUM, SUDAN
- Country: Sudan
- Reuters ID: LVAF3K3LO7RFSZHK55OEC21AWPBG
- Story Text: IN THE SUDAN, AN ATTEMPTED COUP BY JUNIOR OFFICERS HAS BEEN FOILED, THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. SADIK EL MAHDI SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
TROOPS AND POLICE WERE CALLED OUT TO GUARD GOVERNMENT BUILDING AND OTHER KEY POINTS IN KHARTOUM AFTER LAST WEEK'S DEMONSTRATIONS BETWEEN COMMUNISTS AND RIGHT-WINGERS.
THE COUNTRY, PLAGUED BY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND CONFLICT BETWEEN MOSLEMS AND NEGROES IN THE SOUTH, WAS PLUNGED INTO CRISIS BY A HIGH COURT DECISION TO LIFT THE BAN ON THE COMMUNIST PARTY.
EIGHT COMMUNISTS MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY WERE EXPELLED AT THE TIME OF THE BAN LAST YEAR. THE PARTY IN OPERATION FOR 30 YEARS IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE STRONGEST IN AFRICA.
AT A RALLY OF THE RULING UMMA PARTY, THE PRIME MINISTER TOLD 5,000 SUPPORTERS THE ARCHITECTS OF THE ATTEMPTED COUP WOULD BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
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