Draft:Jaafar Nimeiry
Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiry was one of the prominent military-political figures of Sudan and among the famous Islamic leaders of the Islamic World.
Birth and Death
Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiry was born on January 1, 1930, in Wad Nobawi in Omdurman. His family was from the Northern Danagla tribe. Nimeiry passed away in 2009 after suffering from a prolonged illness and was buried in Omdurman.
Military Education in the USA
After primary education, he went to the Khartoum Military College and graduated from there in 1952, and went to the USA to continue his studies in military sciences.
Military and Political Activity
Jaafar Nimeiry returned to Sudan after finishing his studies and joined the army, and then in 1969 became the President of the Sudan Council. In 1983, he divided the Southern Province into three sections: Upper Nile, Bahr el Ghazal, and Equatoria, due to fear of Joseph Lagu's dominance from the Dinka tribe over the entire south.
In the early 1980s, with the discovery of oil reserves in the south, disputes over control over it escalated, and in mid-1983, Nimeiry accused Kerubino Kuanyin, leader of Group 105, of seizing regional assets with the help of Yasi, and using the army, initiated a hard conflict against him.
John Garang was assigned by Nimeiry to suppress them, but he agreed with them and established the Sudan People's Liberation Movement for the independence of the south. They claimed the general hatred of the people of the south towards the rulers of Khartoum, created a leftist government with the support of the President of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam, and engaged in warfare against the central government. This internal conflict lasted eleven years.
Change in Political Outlook
Jaafar Nimeiry was a revolutionary officer who actually saved Sudan from the West; but he gradually became one of the instruments of the West; Islamist revolutionaries in Sudan rose up against him and ousted Jaafar Nimeiry[1].
After the ouster of Jaafar Nimeiry, an interim government was formed and Sadiq al-Mahdi was chosen as the Prime Minister of the country of Sudan[2].