National Revolutionary Command Council (Sudan)

National Revolutionary Command Council
مجلس قيادة الثورة الوطنية
AbbreviationNRCC
Formation25 May 1969
Dissolved12 October 1971
TypeActing Presidency
Collective leadership
Legal statusDissolved after a referendum. Nimeiry became President constitutionally.
HeadquartersKhartoum
Region served
Sudan Democratic Republic of Sudan
Members10 (until November 1970)
7 (after November 1970)
Chairman
Maj. Gen. Jaafar Nimeiry
Deputy Chairman
Babiker Awadalla and Khalid Hassan Abbas
AffiliationsPresidency of Sudan
Sudanese Army
Parliament

The National Revolutionary Command Council (NRCC) was the body that ruled Sudan after the coup d'état in May 1969. It was disbanded in October 1971.

Initially Babiker Awadalla, a lawyer, served as Premier, but was then moved by Maj-Gen Gaafar Nimeiry to become deputy chair of the council on 26 November 1969.[1] Joseph Garang, a southerner, was also on the council in its initial days.

Members (in 1970)

The other members (1970) were as follows:[2]

  • Farouk Hamadallah (Purged in 1970)
  • Khalid Hassan Abbas
  • Mamoun Awad
  • Abul Kassem Hashem
  • Muhammad Ahmed Abd al-Qadir
  • Abu el-Qassim Mohamad Ibrahim
  • Abu Bakr al-Nur (Purged in 1970)
  • Hashem al Atta (Purged in 1970)

See also

  • Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council
  • Libyan Revolutionary Command Council
  • Revolutionary Command Council (Iraq)

References

  1. ^ OBallance 1977, p. 104-5.
  2. ^ The Europa World Year Book 1970
  • O'Ballance, Edgar (1977). The Secret War in the Sudan: 1955–1972. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-10768-0.